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• each integral user control 112 typically performs a number of different functions often operated by pressing the same button several times or by pressing control buttons in various different combinations.
• a user must navigate a menu structure in order for the web access device to perform a desired function. It has been found that a menu structure having more than one or two levels is particularly difficult for users to navigate.
• FIG. 2 shows a second preferred embodiment wherein the navigation control unit 120 comprises a handsfree unit 230 including a microphone 231 and an earpiece 232.
• the navigation control unit 120 may be attached to a replaceable part of wireless web access device 110, such as a battery pack.
• a replaceable part of wireless web access device 110 such as a battery pack.
• the battery pack and navigation control unit 120 could be packaged and sold together to create a potentially more desirable product.
• any replaceable part related to the wireless web access device 110 such as antennas or removable attachments, could be packaged with a navigation control unit 120.
• one of the user controls 122 could be configured to redirect the user to a game playing web site.
• the user controls 122 could be designed to facilitate web-based games, whether the user controls 122 are a gaming input device such as a thumb pad or joystick or a user control 122 designed to select choice V in a trivia game. Advertising revenue or playing fees could generate revenue based on the user of the web-based games.
• games are stored locally on the navigation control unit 120, and one or more user controls 122 or other user input devices are used to play the games.
• one of the user controls 122 could be configured to redirect the user to a betting web site.
• the user controls 122 could be designed to facilitate gambling games and games of chance.
• Payment authentication, or credit card information could be transmitted from the navigation control unit 120 in order to provide a mechanism for transferring funds.
• one of the user controls 122 could be configured to send commands to a television or personal computer.
• the navigation control unit 120 could act as a remote control for a television or personal computer. This is particularly valuable with interactive television, where the wireless web access device 110 could be, say, an interactive television and the user controls 122 could be used both to redirect the browser on the interactive television to another site and to control functions of the interactive television, such as power, volume, channel, etc.
• the navigation control unit 120 stores user specific information, and such information is delivered to the wireless web access device 110, for example, when accessing a particular predetermined web site from one of the user controls 122. Additionally or alternatively, such user information is supplied from the navigation control unit 120 in response to an interrogation signal issued from the wireless web access device 110.
• one embodiment of the invention employs a computer 700, such as a personal computer or workstation, having one or more processors 701 coupled to one or more user input devices 702 and data storage devices 704.
• the computer is also coupled to at least one output device such as a display device 706 and one or more optional additional output devices 708 (e.g., printer, plotter, speakers, tactile or olfactory output devices, etc.).
• the computer may be coupled to external computers, such as via an optional network connection 710, a wireless transceiver 712, or both.
• the server computer 808 includes a server engine 812, a web page management component 814, a content management component 816 and a database management component 818.
• the server engine performs basic processing and operating system level tasks.
• the web page management component handles creation and display or routing of web pages. Users may access the server computer by means of a URL associated therewith.
• the content management component handles most of the functions in the embodiments described herein.
• the database management component includes storage and retrieval tasks with respect to the database, queries to the database, and storage of data such as animation graphics and audio signals.
• the web pages noted herein are stored as display descriptions, graphical user interfaces, or other methods of depicting information on a computer screen (e.g., commands, links, fonts, colors, layout, sizes and relative positions, and the like), where the layout and information or content to be displayed on the page is stored in a database.
• a "link” refers to any resource locator identifying a resource available on a network, such as a display description provided by an organization having a site or node on the network.
• FIG. 10 depicts a schematic view of a suitable embodiment of the navigation server 125.
• the navigation server 125 can be a computer 700 configured as a server 808 or the navigation server 125 can be a distributed computing system 800 (as described more fully in connection with FIGS. 8-9).
• the navigation server 125 is preferably a robust, fault-tolerant system with input/output capabilities and access to storage, such as in a database 810.
• multiple servers can be used in place of the navigation server 125, as described in the web load balancing system 902 and the multiple server system 900 discussed in relation to FIG. 9.
• the navigation server 125 is preferably connected to a personalization database 1040 used for storing data associated with users of the navigation server 125, as described below.
• the navigation server 125 is preferably connected to one or more user computers 1002 via a computer network 806, such as a WAN, LAN, or the Internet.
• a computer network 806, such as a WAN, LAN, or the Internet.
• Each user computer 1002 can be substantially similar to the computer 700 as described in relation to FIG. 7.
• the user computers 1002, like the computer 700, may be any type of computer.
• the user computers 1002 may be used in one embodiment to allow the users of navigation contiol units 120 to modify some or all of the settings of their navigation control units 120.
• the user computers 1002 are optional and are not required for operation of the navigation server 125.
• FIG. 11 One preferred embodiment for operation of the navigation server 125 with the user on a wireless web access device 110 equipped with a navigation control unit 120 will now be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 11 as a routine 1100.
• Each of the blocks depicted in FIG. 11 and the other flowcharts is of a sub-operation type that is either well-known in the art or may be implemented by those skilled in the relevant art based on the detailed description provided herein. Each block may well include a sequence of operations that need not be described herein.
• One skilled in the art will recognize that the order of blocks in FIG. 11 and other figures of the application can be modified as long as the resulting order in not inconsistent with the basic functionality.
• the personalization database preferably contains a redirection URL associated with each user control 122 for each navigation contiol unit 120 (described more fully in connection with the user properties table of FIG. 12). Therefore, when information about both the navigation control unit 120 and the user control 122 are available, a redirect URL is associated with that information in a lookup table in the personalization database 1040.
• the user of the navigation control unit 120, the partner associated with the navigation contiol unit 120, or the operator of the navigation server 125 can change the values in the personalization database 1040, including the redirect URL associated with a user contiol 122 on a particular navigation contiol unit 120.
• the user properties lookup table 1202 can also contain data used for authentication of a user desiring to change his or her settings, embodied in FIG. 12 by PASSWORD, EMAIL, and HINT.
• PASSWORD PASSWORD
• EMAIL EMAIL
• HINT a wide variety of authentication measures that are feasible, including password protection and password delivery to a confirmed e-mail address.
• the EDITABLE entry contains information about what entries can be changed by an authenticated user. In one embodiment, the EDITABLE entry contains a string of binary numbers to indicate which user control fields are editable by the user.

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