ADAPTIVE RENDERING FOR MOBILE MEDIA SHARING

• US 20110072086A1
• Filed: 09/21/2010
• Published: 03/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Thwapr, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Thwapr, Inc.
• Inventors: Ballard, Barbara Elaine, Lin, Chiamu May, Hoffert, Eric, Newsome, Richard Leigh, Gutta, Vijay Bhaskar Reddy
• Granted Patent: US 8,312,079 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

A page to be delivered to a user device is stored as page components. Based on characteristics of the user device, a page profile, an ad-banner profile and a thumbnail profile are selected. The page components are rendered based on the selected profiles. Further customization may be provided from information stored in a registration profile of a sending user and/or a registration profile of a receiving user.

Claims

1. A method of providing information, comprising:

retrieving, at a computer, device characteristics for a receiving device,

selecting, by the computer, a page profile based on the device characteristics,

retrieving, by the computer, components for a page,

formatting, by the computer, the retrieved components based on the selected page profile, and

sending the formatted components from the computer to the receiving device.