Automatic conversion system

• US 20020026475A1
• Filed: 08/28/2001
• Published: 02/28/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/1997
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Netmask Internet Technologies Limited
• Inventors: Marmor, Eliyahu
• Granted Patent: US 7,167,925 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/252 between a Database Management System and a front-end application
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/258 Data format conversion from or to a database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561

Abstract

A method for transferring information between a server (24) and a client (28), through a converter (22), comprising:

analyzing at least a portion the information by the converter (22), to determine a standard used by the server (24) to encode the information in the portion; and

replacing at least a portion of the analyzed information with other information, which other information uses a second standard,

wherein, analyzing comprises parsing the information on a syntactic level and wherein the information comprises at least one Internet hypertext document.

Claims

1. A method for controlling the viewing of copyrighted information, transmitted from a data source to a client, on the Internet, comprising:

transmitting the information from the data source to a server, wherein said information is in a format viewable by the client;

converting the information, at the server, to an encoded form;

transmitting the encoded form of the information to the client; and

decoding and displaying, at the client, of the encoded information, wherein said encoding and decoding makes said information less available to copying by said client.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein said format of said information is a format used on the Internet.

3. A method according to claim 2, wherein said format is a HTML format.

4. A method according to any of claims 1-3, wherein displaying comprises temporally modulating the display of the information.

5. A method according to any of claims 1-3, wherein decoding comprises decoding by a server-provided program.

6. A method according to claim 5, wherein said server-provided program requires a live connection with said server.

7. A method according to claim 5, wherein said server-provided program is downloaded from the server.

8. A method according to claim 5, comprising authenticating the server-provided program to the server.

9. A method according to claim 5, wherein converting comprises converting said information to a form unusable by said client without said server-provided program.

10. A method according to any of claims 1-3, wherein converting comprises encrypting.

11. A method according to any of claims 1-3, wherein converting the information comprises converting only a portion of the information.