DETERMINING A PROPERTY OF A COMMUNICATION DEVICE
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1. A method of determining a property for a subject communication device, which subject communication device has a string of characters associated with it, the method comprising:
- receiving the string of characters associated with the subject communication device; and
using the received string of characters to retrieve a property from a store of previously identified properties of sample communication devices, wherein the previously identified properties in the store are referenced by nodes of a tree of sample strings of characters similarly associated with the sample communication devices.
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Abstract
A mobile communication device (1) sends an HTTP request for a Web resource over a mobile network (3) to a Web server (2). The USER AGENT string of the HTTP request is used by the Web server (2) to retrieve properties of the mobile communication device (1) from device properties stored in a device property store (4). The device properties are referenced by nodes of a tree of sample USER AGENT strings for sample mobile communication devices.
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1. A method of determining a property for a subject communication device, which subject communication device has a string of characters associated with it, the method comprising:
- receiving the string of characters associated with the subject communication device; and
using the received string of characters to retrieve a property from a store of previously identified properties of sample communication devices, wherein the previously identified properties in the store are referenced by nodes of a tree of sample strings of characters similarly associated with the sample communication devices. - View Dependent Claims (2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23)
- receiving the string of characters associated with the subject communication device; and
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3. A method of providing content to a subject communication device over a communications system, which subject communication device has a string of characters associated with it, the method comprising:
- receiving a request from the subject communication device for content to be provided to it, the request including the string of characters associated with the communication device;
determining a property for the subject communication device by using the received string of characters to retrieve a property from a store of previously identified properties of sample mobile devices; andoptimising the content based on the retrieved property, wherein the previously identified properties in the store are referenced by nodes of a tree of sample strings of characters similarly associated with the sample communication devices. - View Dependent Claims (19, 24, 25, 26)
- receiving a request from the subject communication device for content to be provided to it, the request including the string of characters associated with the communication device;
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