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| SMS (Short Message Service) provides the ability to send and receive text messages to and from mobile devices such as cell phones. However, not all hand-held devices adhere to the same standards and protocols. In particular, the Palm Pilot is not readily equipped with the SMS protocol stacks and its power consumption in stand-by mode is too high for it to be always on |
| In order to address these technical challenges, IrisLogic has extended our Alerts Engine Framework to integrate with the Palm platform. Our Irisians provide a novel WCA (Web Clipping Application) that runs on Palm organizers. Technically, a WCA is a proprietary record database that resides on the Palm device. A typical WCA contains HTML forms and hyperlinks that request data either locally from the handheld computer or remotely over the Internet. |
| The information flow in a typical WCA is divided into two types: a frontend residing on the local device and a backend on a server. The diagram below illustrates that all requests from the Palm device are routed through the Palm.net proxy server, which translates HTML into Web clipping code. |
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| A demonstration of the Alerts web clipping application is available for download. Please note that this demonstration does not communicate with our server. |
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| The screenshots above show a device that has received four alerts. Each alert can be viewed separately simply by tapping on the message hyperlink. The Alerts Engine sends outgoing messages through IrisLogic's framework for delivery to phone carriers. |
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