Tiny client system

Use of the Internet has increased rapidly, and data communications have changed from being hobby-based to becoming essential for daily living. It is important for everybody to easily obtain a necessary information from anywhere and at any time to confidently attain a true information society infrastructure in the future. The terminals are one of the most important elements. To obtain reliable information in the same environment anywhere and at any time, the introduction of a server-based computing (SBC) system is promising, because a SBC system accumulates and processes information in the one place. Cellular phones are also useful as terminals to easily achieve information access anywhere and at any time. To achieve an SBC system for cellular phones that can operate comfortably, we propose a light-weight protocol called the "UI component oriented protocol" and a function of speculative execution based on the prediction of user events. Moreover, we implemented a prototype system, and confirmed that our system worked quickly within the communications environment of cellular phones.