Content Optimization for Receiving Terminals

• US 20080316228A1
• Filed: 02/15/2006
• Published: 12/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LUMO Interactive Incorporated
• Original Assignee: LUMO Interactive Incorporated
• Inventors: Seljavaara, Petri
• Granted Patent: US 7,944,456 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/660
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

The invention discloses a method, server and a computer program for optimizing content delivered to a variety of terminal devices. In the solution disclosed in the invention, a user is able to create exact layouts and optimize the amount of content to different media environments simultaneously.

Claims

1. A method for optimizing content delivered to a variety of terminal devices, characterised in that the method comprises the steps of:

creating a plurality of terminal device groups, determining dimensions for each terminal device group, the dimensions comprising the smallest and largest size values determining bounds for the smallest and largest active display areas of terminal devices within a terminal device group;

creating a layout for each page of a terminal device group, each layout definition comprising at least one media cell;

creating at least one media cell within each layout;

determining properties for each media cell, the properties comprising dimensions comprising the smallest and largest size values determining bounds for the size of a media cell within a layout; and

optimizing content into a terminal device based on the determined definitions.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterised in that the properties of a media cell further comprises at least one of a name, a content type, content, an image stretch value, grid spans, and margins.

3. The method according to claim 1, characterised in that the image stretch value represents how much an image is allowed to stretch within a media cell.

4. The method according to claim 1, characterised in that the method further comprises:

determining dimensions for a layout, the dimensions comprising the smallest and largest size values.

5. The method according to claim 1, characterised in that the method further comprises:

determining a layout stretch value for each layout, the layout stretch value representing how much the layout is allowed to stretch outside an active display area of a terminal device.

6. The method according to claim 1, characterised in that the method further comprises the steps of:

inputting terminal device active area sizes in a database; and

categorizing the terminal devices automatically into terminal device groups based on the active area sizes of the terminal devices.

7. The method according to claim 1, characterised in that the terminal device groups comprise at least one of a personal computer, a television, a personal digital assistant device, a smart phone, a mobile phone, text only and a print.

8. The method according to claim 7, characterised in that a terminal, device group comprises at least one subgroup.

9. The method according to claim 1, characterised in that the mobile phone group comprises at least one subgroup based on an active display size of the mobile phones.

10. The method according to claim 1, characterised in that the method further comprises the step of:

creating at least one user-defined terminal device group comprising at least one terminal device.

11. The method according to claim 1, characterised in that the method further comprises the step of:

naming media cells in different layouts uniformly in different terminal device groups, thus enabling simultaneous content changes in these terminal device groups when editing one terminal device group.

12. The method according to claim 1, characterised in that the method comprises the step of:

issuing a suggestion notification if content does not fit into a media cell, content is missing from a layout or layout is missing a name.

13. The method according to claim 1, characterised in that the method comprises the step of:

choosing at least one terminal device group to apply changes also in the at least one terminal device group when editing a media cell in a terminal device group, if the same media cell exists in the at least one terminal device group.

14. The method according to claim 1, characterised in that the method comprises the step of:

when importing image content into a media cell, using a crop function to show the area that is to be cropped into a media cell.

15. The method according to claim 1, characterised in that the method comprises the step of:

receiving a page request from a terminal device; and

providing the terminal device with content optimized for the terminal device in response to the page request.

16. The method according to claim 1, characterised in that in the dimensions of a terminal device group the smallest size value equals to the largest size value.

17. The method according to claim 1, characterised in that the method further comprises determining and sending a right layout size to a terminal device based on the following determination sequence;

i) determining the right layout size based on a terminal, database;

ii) determining the right layout, size based on a phone manufacturer'"'"'s database;

iii) determining a default layout to be sent to mobile terminals if it is not possible to determine the right layout size based on the terminal database or the phone manufacturer'"'"'s database.

18. The method according to claim 17, characterised in that said step of sending further comprises:

sending, to the terminal device, the default layout with at least one option to choose a different layout size with the terminal device.

19. The method according to claim 17, characterised in that before sending a right layout size to a terminal device the method, further comprises:

converting at least one media cell into a picture format.

20. A server for optimizing content delivered to a variety of terminal devices, characterised in that the server is configured for performing the following steps:

creating a plurality of terminal device groups;

determining dimensions for each terminal device group, the dimensions comprising the smallest and largest size values determining bounds for the smallest and largest active display areas of terminal, devices within a terminal device group;

creating a layout for each page of a terminal device group, each layout definition comprising at least one media cell;

creating at least one media cell within each layout;

determining properties for each media cell, the properties comprising dimensions comprising the smallest and largest size values determining bounds for the size of a media cell within a layout; and

optimizing content into a terminal device based on the determined definitions.

21. The server according to claim 20, characterised in that the properties of a media cell further comprises at least one of a name, a content type, content, an image stretch value, grid spans, and margins.

22. The server according to claim 20, characterised in that the image stretch value represents how much an image is allowed to stretch within a media cell.

23. The server according to claim 20, characterised in that the server is configured for performing the step:

determining dimensions for a layout, the dimensions comprising the smallest and largest size values.

24. The server according to claim 20, characterised in that server is configured for performing the step:

determining a layout, stretch value for each layout, the layout stretch value representing how much the layout is allowed to stretch outside an active display area of a terminal device.

25. The server according to claim 20, characterised in that the server is configured for performing the step:

inputting terminal device active area sizes in a database; and

categorizing the terminal devices automatically into groups based on the active area sizes of the terminal devices.

26. The server according to claim 20, characterised in that the terminal device groups comprise at least one of a personal computer, a television, a personal digital assistant device, a smart phone, a mobile phone, text only and a print.

27. The server according to claim 26, characterised in that a terminal device group comprises at least one subgroup.

28. The server according to claim 20, characterised in that the mobile phone group comprises at least one subgroup based on an active display size of the mobile phones.

29. The server according to claim 20, characterised in that the server is configured for performing the step:

creating at least one user-defined terminal device group comprising at least one terminal device.

30. The server according to claim 20, characterised in that the server is configured for performing the step:

naming media cells in different layouts uniformly in different terminal device groups, thus enabling simultaneous content, changes in these terminal device groups when editing one terminal device group.

31. The server according to claim 20, characterised in that the server is configured for performing the step:

issuing a suggestion notification if content does not fit into a media cell, content is missing from a layout or layout is missing a name.

32. The server according to claim 20, characterised in that the server is configured for performing the step:

choosing at least one terminal device group to apply changes also in the at least one terminal device group when editing a media cell in a terminal device group, if the same media cell exists in the at least one terminal device group.

33. The server according to claim 20, characterised in that the server is configured for performing the step:

when importing image content into a media cell, using a crop function to show the area that is to be cropped a the media cell.

34. The server according to claim 20, characterised in that the server is configured for performing the steps:

receiving a page request from a terminal, device; and

providing the terminal device with content optimized for the terminal device in response to the page request.

35. The server according to claim 20, characterised in that in the dimensions of a terminal device group the smallest size value equals to the largest size value.

36. The server according to claim 20, characterised in that the server is further configured to determine and send a right layout size to a terminal device based on the following determination sequence:

i) to determine the right layout size based on a terminal database;

ii) to determine the right layout size based on a phone manufacturer'"'"'s database;

iii) to determine a default layout to be sent to mobile terminals if it is not possible to determine the right layout size based on the terminal database or the phone manufacturer'"'"'s database.

37. The server according to claim 36, characterised in that in said step to send the server is further configured to:

send, to the terminal device, the default layout with at least one option to choose a different layout size with the terminal device.

38. The server according to claim 36, characterised in that before sending a right layout size to a terminal device the server is further configured to:

convert at least one media cell into a picture format.

39. A computer program embodied on a computer readable medium for optimizing content delivered to a variety of terminal devices, wherein the computer program controls a data-processing device to perform the steps of:

creating a plurality of terminal device groups;

determining dimensions for each terminal device group, the dimensions comprising the smallest and largest size values determining bounds for the smallest and largest active display areas of terminal devices within a terminal device group;

creating a layout for each page of a terminal device group, each layout definition comprising at least one media cell;

creating at least one media cell within each layout;

determining properties for each media cell, the properties comprising dimensions comprising the smallest and largest size values determining bounds for the size of a media cell within a layout; and

optimizing content into a terminal, device based on the determined definitions.