Content Publishing Customized to Capabilities of Device

• US 20080313210A1
• Filed: 06/15/2007
• Published: 12/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Anderson, David R., Cooperstein, Howard L., Wang, Jianwen, Montgomery, Joe Mark, Charton, Regis G., Demchuk, Elena N., Karoubi, Stephane A., Eide, Darrin Eugene
• Application Number:
  US11/764,173
• Publication Number:
  US 20080313210A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/102
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154

Abstract

Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to customizing content to the capabilities of a device. In aspects, an editor uses an editorial tool to specify criteria applicable to content. The criteria include rules to apply in generating content based on quantized capabilities of devices. A publishing component that receives a request for content first detects the capabilities of the requesting device. Then, the publishing component classifies the capabilities of the device and applies the criteria to the classifications in customizing content to deliver to the device.

Claims

1. A method implemented at least in part by a computer, the method comprising:

displaying a criterion of a content publishing system, the criterion affecting how content is customized for a variety of devices having different capabilities, the capabilities being quantized;

receiving input that indicates a rule to apply in generating content customized to quantized capabilities, the rule used at least in determining whether to include or format the content in rendering code sent to a device; and

storing data derived from the input in a store accessible to the content publishing system for use in creating the rendering code.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the criterion corresponds to an amount of memory that a device has available to display a page of content.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the criterion corresponds to a width of a display of a device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the criterion corresponds to a maximum number of columns to be displayed.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the criterion corresponds to a maximum number of items to be displayed on a page.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the criterion corresponds to a maximum number of items to be displayed from a content module.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the criterion corresponds to a maximum number of characters to be displayed on a page.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the criterion comprises a quantization of a capability of the devices and an operator.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the quantization corresponds to one of large, medium, and small.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the operator comprises one of <

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11. The method of claim 1, wherein the rule indicates whether to include the content based on a rendering language supported by a device.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the content is a single content module of a plurality of content modules to be published by the content publishing system, the content publishing system being capable of associating different criteria with each of the content modules, the criteria potentially affecting publishing of each of the content modules based on capabilities of a requesting device.

13. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions, which when executed perform actions, comprising:

receiving a request for content from a device;

determining a capability of the device;

classifying the capability of the device into a classification;

placing the classification in a collection; and

rendering code to send to the device content based at least on the classification.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the capability comprises memory available on the device to display a page of content.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the capability comprises a screen dimension of a display of the device.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the capability comprises a rendering language understood by the device.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein rendering code to send to the device content based at least on the classification comprises omitting content from the rendering code.

18. The method of claim 13, further comprising inserting links in the code that link to an image service, the image service having access to the collection, the image service operable to scale images to fit on a display of the device based on the classification.

19. In a computing environment, an apparatus, comprising:

a capabilities detector having logic to detect a capability of a requesting device and to classify the capability into a classification;

a store operable to store a criterion to apply in generating content customized to the classification; and

a page builder operable to obtain the criterion as well as the classification and to customize content based on the criterion and the classification.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, further comprising an image service operable to scale images based on a capability of the requesting device, wherein the page builder is further operable to insert links within rendering code sent to the requesting device, the links referring the requesting device to the image service.