Platform
Technology Overview
biNu is a mobile software platform that enables feature phones to access internet apps and services such as Twitter, Wikipedia, news, live sports scores, weather etc. with near instant response times on 2G (GPRS / EDGE) networks.
Designed for Mobile Wireless
Mobile wireless communications face some real world, physical constraints when compared to the wired computing world:
- most mobile devices have small screens, small numeric keyboards, limited memory and processing capacity
- wireless networking is inherently slower, less reliable and subject to much higher latency than wired networking.
Not surprisingly, many users of the mobile Internet today have a poor experience with frustratingly slow response times and inefficient use of data bandwidth.
biNu has been designed from the ground up to provide a superior mobile Internet experience focussed on speed and ease of use, with:
- all application processing concentrated on “back-end” servers
- very efficient transmission of end-user data over the wireless network
- minimal processing on a user’s mobile device
- extensive use of data caching and pre-caching to provide instant response times.
Architecture
The biNu platform has three component layers:
- biNu mobile client – a tiny downloadable application that runs on most Java-enabled mobile devices and offers users a single point of access to online content and services
- biNu proxy server – a secure, scalable platform that efficiently manages the processing, rendering and delivery of content to biNu mobile clients
- biNu applications – hosted anywhere on the Internet, developed in any preferred technology with end-user content delivered to the biNu proxy server in PADL, a simple XML schema for describing biNu applications.