According to the PDF, the site stick can wait 3 seconds for the user to
input a series of digits followed by the # character, and, if none is
entered by the user, the "sponsor's" URL is forced. I have not studied the
PDF in detail; I do not know whether data about the sponsor is storred on
the site stick, or whether the server maintains a list of site-sticks and
one or more associated sponsor URL's per site-stick.
I'd guess that the site stick notices that it has been plugged into a phone,
and, if the user has not started keying within a time window, the site-stick
either feeds it's sponsor's URL directly to the phone browser, or drives the
browser to the site-stick server, passing either the sponsor ID or the
site-stick's serial number to the site stick server, which then redirects
the browser to the apporpriate URL.
-----Original Message-----
From: keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net
[mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net]On Behalf Of Mika Tuupola
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 5:24 PM
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Site Stick
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, George P.Taylor IX wrote:
> The Site Stick is inserted in the port on an i-mode phone, and can
> either automatically drive the phone's browser to a URL stored in the
> stick, or the user can key in a series of digits and press the # key.
When automatically sending phones browser to somewhere,
where does it know when to send the phone to somewhere?
Where does it get the impulse / order saying "connect the
browser now" ?
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Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/
Received on Tue Sep 26 13:52:59 2000