Document delivery

• US 20060031411A1
• Filed: 02/17/2005
• Published: 02/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Gimson, Roger Brian, Williams, Stuart Kennedy
• Granted Patent: US 7,555,564 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

A server has a memory 16 arranged to have a document 17 having a number of parts stored in it. The server is arranged to: receive a request including a URI having a document identifier which identifies both the whole and a part of the document; determine capabilities of the device; and deliver an appropriate portion of the document containing at least the identified part, the portion depending on the capabilities.

Claims

1. A server storing a document, the beginning and end of the document'"'"'s content being defined by machine readable labels, and the beginning and end of a defined part of the document'"'"'s content being defined by further machine readable labels, the server being adapted to:

process a request from a client for the document, the request having the form of a URI which includes a first identifier signifying the document and a second identifier signifying the defined part;

establish capabilities of the client from the request;

establish from the client'"'"'s capabilities whether the second identifier is redundant; and

if it is, to dispatch the document.

2. A server according to claim 1 further adapted to determine whether or not the client'"'"'s capabilities indicate that the second identifier is redundant, and if they do not, to dispatch the defined part, but not at least one other part, of the document content.

3. A server according to claim 1 arranged to determine the capabilities of the device from a header of the request.

4. A server according to claim 1 arranged to deliver, with the defined part, an identifier for a part of the document arranged to be read by the user device, the identifier including a component identifying that part of the document and a fragment identifier also identifying that part of the document.

5. A server according to claim 4 which is arranged to dispatch the identifier with the dispatched part, such that the identifier is arranged to identify the dispatched part to the user device.

6. A server according to claim 5 wherein the identifier is arranged to be interpreted by the user device as at least part of a URI of the defined part.

7. A server according to claim 4 wherein the identifier forms part of a link to a first part of the document embedded in a second part of the document.

8. A server according to claim 7 arranged to deliver the first and second parts together to the user device, such that the link can be used by the user device to move between the parts of the document.

9. A server according to claim 7 arranged, if it delivers only the defined part, to deliver the second part as the defined part, such that the link can be used by the user device to request delivery of the first part from the server.

13. A computer programme arranged, when run on a server, to cause the server to operate as a server according to claim 1.

15. A data carrier carrying instructions arranged, when run on a server, to cause the server to operate as a server according to claim 1.

10. An electronic document having a plurality of parts, the document and the parts each being defined by machine readable labels, and an identifier for each part, the identifier including a component identifying the part of the document and a fragment identifier also identifying the part of the document.

11. An electronic document having a plurality of document parts, the document and the parts each having a beginning and an end defined by machine readable labels, and a link to one of the parts, the link including an identifier for said one part, the identifier including a component identifying said one part of the document and a fragment identifier also identifying said one part of the document.

14. A computer program arranged, when run on a server, to cause the server to perform the method of claim 11.

16. A data carrier carrying instructions arranged, when run on a server, to cause the server to perform the method of claim 11.

12. A method of delivering a document to a user device, the method comprising delivering content of the document together with an identifier of a part of the document, the identifier including a component identifying the part of the document and a fragment identifier also identifying the part of the document.

17. A method of operating a server to process a request from a client for delivery to the client of a document stored on the server, the document having content defined by machine readable labels, and a defined part of the document'"'"'s content being defined by further machine readable labels, the method comprising the steps of:

processing a request from the client for the document, the request having the form of a URI which includes a first identifier signifying the document and a second identifier signifying the defined part;

establishing capabilities of the client from the request;

establishing from the client'"'"'s capabilities whether the second identifier is redundant; and

if it is, dispatching the document.

18. A method according to claim 17 further comprising the step, in the event that the client'"'"'s capabilities indicate that the second identifier is not redundant, dispatching the defined part of the document content.