Content Markup Transformation

• US 20080235573A1
• Filed: 03/21/2007
• Published: 09/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Habarakada, Shyam S., Romatka, Rainer J, Agney, Michael S., Serdy, Frank S, Shah, Sarthak D
• Granted Patent: US 7,853,593 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/239
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

Methods of correcting and transcoding markup language content for mobile devices are described. In an example, mobile device capabilities are determined. Content is processed to correct malformed tags in the content based on the determination. The corrected content is transcoded from a first mark-up language which is not supported by a mobile device into a second markup language which is supported by the mobile device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

determining capabilities of a mobile device; and

processing content based on the determining by;

correcting malformed markup tags in the content; and

transcoding the corrected content from a first-markup language that is not supported by the mobile device into a second-markup language that is supported by the mobile device.

2. The method as described in claim 1, further comprising inserting a resized image link into the corrected content based on the determining.

3. The method as described in claim 1, further comprising rewriting a uniform resource locator link, included in the corrected content, to point to second content.

4. The method as described in claim 3, wherein rewriting includes proxying second content from an external source.

5. The method as described in claim 1, wherein correcting includes removing tags that do not meet a safety criteria.

6. The method as described in claim 1, further comprising transmitting the transcoded content to a thin device.

7. The method as described in claim 1, wherein determining is based on comparing a request header with a list of known agents.

8. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the method is implement as an active server page.

9. A system comprising:

a transforming module to correct malformed tags in content based on determined capabilities of a browser; and

a transcoding module to transcode the corrected content from a first-markup language that is not supported by the browser into a second-markup language that is supported by the browser.

10. The system as described in claim 9, further comprising a link rewriting module to proxy uniform resource locator identified content for correction.

11. The system as described in claim 9, wherein the malformed tags are corrected such that transforming module removes undesirable tags in content.

12. The system as described in claim 9, wherein the transforming module inserts an image link, in the corrected content, based on determined capabilities of the browser.

13. The system as described in claim 9, wherein the transcoding module paginates corrected content based on determined capabilities of the browser.

14. The system as described in claim 9, wherein the first-markup language is hypertext markup language (HTML).

15. The system as described in claim 9, wherein the system is implemented as an active server page.

16. The system as described in claim 9, wherein the system is in wireless communication with a thin device.

17. One or more computer-readable media comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed, direct a computing system to,

rewrite a uniform resource locator link, included in first content, to point to second content;

and

proxy second content processed to;

correct malformed markup tags in the second content; and

transcode the corrected second content from first-markup language that is not supported by a mobile device into second-markup language that is supported by the mobile device.

18. The one or more computer-readable media as described in claim 17, wherein proxying is provided as an active server page.

19. The one or more computer-readable media as described in claim 17, wherein the second content is corrected to include a resized image link based on the determining.

20. The one or more computer-readable media as described in claim 17, wherein first-markup language is hypertext markup language (HTML).