Abstract: A wireless communication system mobile terminal monitors its acoustic environment. Speech recognition capability in the mobile terminal transcribes monitored speech, and determines if it is novel, such as by comparison to a database of known words and phrases. Terms from the determined novel speech are submitted to one or more information resources, such as search engine, dictionary, encyclopedia, or new word/phrase server web sites. The highest-ranked returned links may be followed and the resulting pages downloaded to the mobile terminal over a low bandwidth channel for review by a user. If a user does not access the downloaded information within a predetermined time period, it is deleted.

Abstract: The present invention describes a method and an apparatus for playing electronic games via an online network. In particular, the present invention provides means for players to switch between different game devices without losing their place in the game. Generally, when a player playing a game on a game console wishes to switch to a mobile device, the player saves a current game state and transfers the current game state to the mobile device. The player then player resumes the game from the saved game state using the mobile device. As such, the player can resume the game on the mobile device from where he or she left off on the game console instead of having to resign from the game.