PERSONAL DIGITAL TERMINAL AND DATA OUTPUT CONTROL SYSTEM

摘要

The invention provides a data output control device and a personal digital assistant, which are adapted to easily obtain detailed information over a network. A data output control terminal (300) is connected through the Internet (400) in communication with personal digital assistants (100) owned by users, printing devices (PR1-PRn) distributed spatially, and WWW servers (DS1-DSm). The data output control terminal receives a printout request from a personal digital assistant (100), retrieves the data associated with the printout request through a WWW server (DS), selects one of the printing devices (PR), and outputs the retrieved data to the selected printing device (PR). The personal digital assistant (100) retrieves data from the WWW server (DS), and displays the retrieved data on a LCD (44) and a printout request item attached to the end of the data. When the displayed printout request item is selected, a printout request is transmitted to the data output control terminal (300).