Methods and apparatus for enabling use of web content on various types of devices

• US 20090043777A1
• Filed: 03/01/2007
• Published: 02/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Eran Shmuel Wyler, Gil Ilani, Naaman Shefi
• Original Assignee: Eran Shmuel Wyler, Gil Ilani, Naaman Shefi
• Inventors: Wyler, Eran Shmuel, Ilani, Gil, Shefi, Naaman
• Application Number:
  US11/713,589
• Publication Number:
  US 20090043777A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols

Abstract

A method and system for displaying web content on a mobile communicator including the following functionality: receiving an http request from a mobile communicator being used by a user, retrieving at least one device identifying field from the http request, the at least one device identifying field identifying the mobile communicator being used by the user, searching in a device identification database for device properties information associated with the at least one field, if the searching is successful, adapting a web page corresponding to the http request in accordance with the device properties information, if the searching is not successful, conducting at least one search of at least one external database to obtain device properties information regarding the mobile communicator identified by the device identifying field from the http request, employing information received from the search to update the device identification database with properties of the mobile communicator identified in the at least one device identifying field and adapting the web page corresponding to the http request in accordance with the device properties information obtained by the search; and transmitting the web page corresponding to the http request to the user mobile communicator following the adapting.

Claims

1. A method for displaying web content on a mobile communicator comprising:

receiving an http request from a mobile communicator being used by a user;

retrieving at least one device identifying field from said http request, said at least one device identifying field identifying said mobile communicator being used by said user;

searching in a device identification database for device properties information associated with said at least one field;

if said searching is successful, adapting a web page corresponding to said http request in accordance with said device properties information;

if said searching is not successful, conducting at least one search of at least one external database to obtain device properties information regarding said mobile communicator identified by said device identifying field from said http request;

employing information received from said search to update said device identification database with properties of said mobile communicator identified in said at least one device identifying field and adapting said web page corresponding to said http request in accordance with said device properties information obtained by said search; and

transmitting said web page corresponding to said http request to said user mobile communicator following said adapting.

2. A method for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 1 and wherein a device identifying database operator can update said device identifying database and accept or reject updates to said device identification database based on information received from said search.

3. A method for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 2 and wherein said at least one search includes at least one of a header search and at least one external database searches.

4. A method for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 1 and wherein a device identifying database operator is enabled to set a priority of each of a plurality of search resources available for said at least one search

5. A method for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 1 and wherein said at least one device identifying field is a user-agent field and said device identifying database is a user-agent database.

6. A method for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 1 and wherein said device identifying database is a hierarchical database.

7. A system for displaying web content on a mobile communicator comprising a server programmed to support the following functionality:

receiving an http request from a mobile communicator being used by a user;

retrieving at least one device identifying field from said http request, said at least one device identifying field identifying said mobile communicator being used by said user;

searching in a device identification database for device properties information associated with said at least one field;

if said searching is successful, adapting a web page corresponding to said http request in accordance with said device properties information;

if said searching is not successful, conducting at least one search of at least one external database to obtain device properties information regarding said mobile communicator identified by said device identifying field from said http request;

employing information received from said search to update said device identification database with properties of said mobile communicator identified in said at least one device identifying field and adapting said web page corresponding to said http request in accordance with said device properties information obtained by said search; and

transmitting said web page corresponding to said http request to said user mobile communicator following said adapting.

8. A system for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 7 and wherein said functionality enables a device identifying database operator to update said device identifying database and accept or reject updates to said device identification database based on information received from said search.

9. A system for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 8 and wherein said at least one search includes at least one of a header search and at least one external database searches.

10. A system for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 7 and wherein said functionality enables a device identifying database operator is enabled to set a priority of each of a plurality of search resources available for said at least one search.

11. A system for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 7 and wherein said at least one device identifying field is a user-agent field and said device identifying database is a user-agent database.

12. A system for displaying web content on a mobile communicator according to claim 7 and wherein said device identifying database is a hierarchical database.