Abstract: An intermediate server or system having knowledge of application program protocols used by the application programs in a person's (i.e., user's) wireless device is used to translate information communicated with the device in accordance with a transport-level protocol and the same information communicated with a remote server or system that services the application program in use by that person.

Abstract: The invention links or associates commands supported by application programs in the wireless device or by the platform itself to remote devices or to other application programs or similar processes by means of a software mechanism referred to as a bus. The commands can be any that a user could initiate manually or that the platform could receive from a remote device or an application program or other process.

Abstract: An intermediate server or system having knowledge of application program protocols used by the application programs in a person's (i.e., user's) wireless device is used to translate information communicated with the device in accordance with a transport-level protocol and the same information communicated with a remote server or system that services the application program in use by that person.

Abstract: A sender platform and a receiver platform, at least one of which is a handheld wireless communicating device, communicate digital data packets that are grouped into sequentially transmitted transactions. The data packets include not only the information to be communicated but also tokens. Each transaction is encoded with Begin and End tokens such that the Receiver can detect when the transmission of a transaction has been successfully completed. If communication is undesirably interrupted during transmission, the sender and receiver reconnect and resume the transfer at the point at which the last transaction failed to completely transfer. Any transaction that the receiver did not receive completely is rolled back.

Abstract: Multiple application programs in wireless devices are managed and controlled by a software bus and a control file or similar readily programmer-configurable data-driven mechanism. Buttons or other discrete user interface input controls are linked to commands in the application programs in a platform-independent manner using the control file. In a touch-screen-based device, for example, the control file or other such mechanism defines the sequences in which a user can navigate screens and the user interface controls displayed to a user on each screen. A user interface control activation or similar user input event causes an address to be written to the bus, which responds by invoking a corresponding method, such as one that causes a new screen to be displayed. New application programs can be added to the device and readily integrated with existing programs by updating the control file.

Abstract: An intermediate server or system having knowledge of application program protocols used by the application programs in a person's (i.e., user's) wireless device is used to translate information communicated with the device in accordance with a transport-level protocol and the same information communicated with a remote server or system that services the application program in use by that person.

Abstract: The invention links or associates commands supported by application programs in the wireless device or by the platform itself to remote devices or to other application programs or similar processes by means of a software mechanism referred to as a bus. The commands can be any that a user could initiate manually or that the platform could receive from a remote device or an application program or other process.