Automatic character code recognition/display system, method, and program using mobile telephone
View Patent ↗In one embodiment, when a mobile telephone accessible to the Internet accesses a homepage provider server, character codes of the homepage accessed is identified. Thereafter, a homepage is displayed using character codes in the mobile telephone on the basis of the identification. The homepage provider server provides information for identifying character codes. A character code provider always updates and registers the latest character codes. The mobile telephone accesses the homepage provider server and the character code provider through wireless telephone network and the Internet.
1. A system for automatic character code recognition/display connectable to the Internet through a public wireless communication network, a homepage supplier server connected to the Internet, and a character code supplier server connected to the Internet, comprising:
a computer-readable medium encoded with instructions capable of being executed by a computer, the instructions including:
instructions for storing a homepage data, having character code information, on homepage supplier server;
instructions for storing a new character code on the character code supplier server;
instructions for receiving, at said mobile telephone, a user-input homepage access command;
instructions for transmitting access data from the mobile telephone to the homepage supplier server, in response to the receiving a user-input homepage access command to;
instructions for transmitting said homepage data, from the homepage supplier server to the mobile telephone, in response to receiving said access data;
instructions for receiving, at the mobile telephone, said homepage data from the homepage supplier server;
instructions for automatically determining, at said mobile telephone, whether or not a homepage character code of the mobile telephone can be identified from the character code information of the received homepage data;
instructions for generating, based on said automatic determining, a homepage character code and a homepage character code determining successful data if said determining is successful, and a homepage character code determination unsuccessful data if said determining is unsuccessful;
instructions for determining, in response to said homepage character code determination successful data, whether the homepage character code is a character code existing in the mobile telephone;
instructions for determining, in response to said homepage character code determination successful data, whether the homepage character code is a character code existing in the mobile telephone;
instructions for displaying, in response to said determining step determining that the homepage character code is a character code existing in the mobile telephone, a first graphical user interface screen on the mobile telephone, said first graphical user interface screen having a field for the user to input a download new character command;
instructions for checking a memory free area of the mobile telephone in response to the user entering the download new character code command;
instructions for displaying, in response to said checking indicating insufficient free memory area to download the new character code, a second graphical user interface screen having a field for the user to enter a delete existing character codes command;
instructions for deleting character code from the existing character codes in response to the delete existing character codes command;
instructions for transmitting, in response to said deleting being performed until a necessary free memory area is secured, a new character code download request data from the mobile telephone to the character code supplier server;
instructions for downloading a new character code from the character code supplier server to the mobile telephone, in response to said new character code download request;
instructions for determining whether or not said downloading of a new character code is successful;
instructions for selecting a most appropriate character code for displaying a homepage, from among the character codes existing in the mobile telephone, wherein said selecting selects the new character code in response to said determining step determining that said downloading was successful; and
instructions for displaying a homepage in the most appropriate character code selected by said selecting.
2. The automatic character code recognition/display system of claim 1 , wherein said instructions further include
instructions for maintaining a register in the character code supplier server of registers character code data compatible with the mobile telephone wherein said downloading is based, at least in part, on said register and said new character code command input to the first graphical user interface.
3. The automatic character code recognition/display system of claim 1 , wherein said instructions further includes:
instructions for receiving, at the mobile telephone, a user-entered default code command;
instructions for assigning a character code from among the existing character codes of the mobile telephone as a default character code, based on said user-entered default code command; and
instructions for, in response to said homepage character code determination unsuccessful data, said selecting a most appropriate character code for displaying a homepage selecting said default character code.
4. The automatic character code recognition/display system of claim 1 , wherein said instructions further includes instructions for, in response to said determining whether the homepage character code is a character code existing in the mobile telephone determines that the homepage character code exists in the mobile telephone, said selecting a most appropriate character code for displaying a homepage selecting said character code existing in the mobile telephone.
5. The automatic character code recognition/display system of claim 1 , wherein said instructions further include
instructions for receiving, at the mobile telephone, a user-entered default code command;
instructions for assigning a character code from among the existing character codes of the mobile telephone as a default character code, based on said user-entered default code command,
instructions for said first graphical user interface screen on the mobile telephone to further include a field for the user to enter a do not download new character command; and
instructions for, in response to the user entering the do not download command, said selecting a most appropriate character code for displaying a homepage selecting said default character code.
6. The automatic character code recognition/display system of claim 1 , wherein said instructions further include
instructions for receiving, at the mobile telephone, a user-entered default code command;
instructions for assigning a character code from among the existing character codes of the mobile telephone as a default character code;
instructions for said second graphical user interface screen to further include a field for the user to enter a do not delete existing codes command, and
instructions for, in response to the user entering the do not delete existing codes command, said selecting a most appropriate character code for displaying a homepage selecting said default character code.
7. The automatic character code recognition/display system of claim 1 , wherein said instructions further include:
instructions for receiving, at the mobile telephone, a user-entered default code command;
instructions for assigning a character code from among the existing character codes of the mobile telephone as a default character code; and
instructions for, in response to said homepage character code determination unsuccessful data, generated by said generating a homepage character code determination unsuccessful data if said determining is unsuccessful, said selecting a most appropriate character code selecting said default code command.