DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION IN AN INTERMITTENT NETWORK CONNECTIVITY ENVIRONMENT

摘要

The present invention provides a system and method for dissemination of information to a device in an environment in which network connectivity is intermittent. This is particularly useful in dissemination of information to PDA devices via a wireless connection, which may be unreliable and/or intermittent. Further, the method is particularly useful in dissemination of information to most PDA devices, which have operating environments that are particularly weak with respect to error recovery and exception handling capabilities, resulting in application crashes when there is a lack of network connectivity, even if temporary. The method involves receiving externally-stored network content via a wireless connection, converting references to externally-stored network content to references to locally-stored content, and storing the converted content as locally-stored content. The method may further include monitoring the externally-stored network content for updates, and updating the locally-stored content accordingly.