Abstract: An Improved Method and System for Electronic Data Sales and Distribution over Wide Area Networks is disclosed. The preferred system and method divides the software or other data to be distributed into a separate licensing module and a program module, with each module being distributed separately. The preferred licensing module can be distributed by an e-commerce server over a wide-area network, while the program module is distributed by a separate server computer over the wide-area network (or other method). Furthermore, the software or other electronic data can be updated easily by simply updating the single repository of the program module, while leaving the licensing module(s) at each e-commerce server unchanged.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a personal mobile display system that operate in cooperation with a remote system that include a processor for executing PC compatible application programs capable of generating and displaying a plurality of operational functions and data in response to user specified input. In addition, the present invention is directed to a method of providing event driven functionality that allows a personal mobile display system to system to cooperatively execute application programs in conjunction with a remote computer system by detecting that a change to the functionality, appearance and logical position of an application-oriented functional element and categorizing type of event. Once categorized the present invention encapsulates one or more events as an event transform to be transmitted to a corresponding remote computer system.