Content presentation adaptation

• US 20060069790A1
• Filed: 09/30/2004
• Published: 03/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Surana, Surender
• Application Number:
  US10/954,921
• Publication Number:
  US 20060069790A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/230
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of arranging content presentation for a data transmission system. A received object to be transmitted to the recipient terminal is associated with presentation description information or with a reference to presentation description information defined in the control point and transmitted to the recipient terminal. The recipient terminal may then present object data in accordance with the presentation description information.

Claims

1. A method of defining content presentation for a communications system, the method comprising:

receiving an object to be transmitted to a recipient terminal in an intermediary control point,

associating, in the intermediary control point, the object or data derived from the object with presentation description information or with a reference to presentation description information, and

transmitting the object or data derived from the object associated with the presentation description information or associated with the reference to presentation description information.

2. The method according to claim 1, the method further comprising:

presenting, in the recipient terminal, at least some data in the object or data derived from the object in accordance with the received presentation description information.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the control point selects the presentation description format on the basis of predetermined selection instructions.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein at least one property associated with the recipient terminal is checked by the control point, and

the presentation description format is selected on the basis of the property of the recipient terminal.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the object or data derived from the object is modified to include the presentation description information or the reference to the presentation description information.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein original presentation description information or an original reference to presentation description information is removed from the received object or data derived from the object.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein a network operator specific or a service provider specific presentation description file or a reference to such presentation description file is stored in the system for the control point and associated with the object or data derived from the object.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the presentation description information is a CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) file.

9. A data transmission system comprising an intermediary control point controlling data transmission to a recipient terminal, wherein the system is configured to receive an object to be transmitted to a recipient terminal in control point,

the control point is configured to define for the object or data derived from the object presentation description information or a reference to presentation description information,

the system is configured to transmit the object or data derived from the object associated with the presentation description information or associated with the reference to the presentation description information.

10. A data transmission system according to claim 9, wherein the recipient terminal is configured to present at least part of the object or data derived from the object according to the presentation description information.

11. A data transmission system according to claim 9, wherein the system is a mobile system configured to transmit data to a mobile recipient terminal.

12. A communications device for intermediating data transmission for a recipient terminal, the communications device comprising:

means for receiving an object to be transmitted to a recipient terminal,

means for associating the object or data derived from the object with presentation description information or with a reference to presentation description information, and

means for transmitting the object or data derived from the object for the recipient terminal.

13. A communications device according to claim 12, wherein the control point is configured to select the presentation description format on the basis of predetermined selection instructions.

14. A communications device according to claim 13, wherein the communications device is configured to check at least one property associated with the recipient terminal, and

the communications device is configured to select the presentation description format on the basis of the property of the recipient terminal.

15. A communications device according to claim 12, wherein the communications device is configured to modify the object or data derived from the object to include the presentation description information or the reference to the presentation description information.

16. A communications device according to claim 15, wherein the communications device is configured to remove original presentation description information or an original reference to presentation description information from the received object or data derived from the object.

17. A communications device according to claim 12, wherein the communications device is configured to associate the object or data derived from the object with a network operator or a service provider specific presentation description file or a reference to such network operator or a service provider specific presentation description information.

18. A communications device according to claim 12, wherein the presentation description information is a CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) file.

19. A communications device according to claim 12, wherein the communications device is a WAP gateway.

20. A method for defining appearance of content in a recipient terminal, the method comprising:

associating, by an intermediary control point, an object to be transmitted to the recipient terminal with a network operator specific or a service provider specific presentation description or with a reference to such presentation description defining the appearance of an object comprising displayable content.

21. A module for a mobile terminal, the module comprising:

means for receiving an object,

means for associating the object with presentation description information or with a reference to presentation description information, and

means for sending the presentation description information or the reference to presentation description information to an entity of the mobile terminal for arranging presentation of at least some data in the object in accordance with the presentation description information.

22. A mobile terminal comprising:

means for receiving an object,

means for associating the object with presentation description information or with a reference to presentation description information, and

means for presenting at least some data in the object in accordance with the presentation description information.

23. A computer program for controlling a data processing device, configured to intermediate data transmission for a recipient terminal, by executing the program code included in the computer software product in a processor of the data processing device, wherein the computer software product comprises

a program code portion for causing the data processing device to associate an object addressed to a recipient terminal with presentation description information or with a reference to presentation description information.

24. A computer program product for controlling a data processing device, configured to intermediate data transmission for a recipient terminal, by executing the program code included in the computer software product in a processor of the data processing device, wherein the computer software product comprises

a program code portion for causing the data processing device to associate an object addressed to a recipient terminal with presentation description information or with a reference to presentation description information.