TRANSCODER HINTING

• US 20110258250A1
• Filed: 04/19/2010
• Published: 10/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Deviceatlas Limited
• Original Assignee: mTLD Top Level Domain Limited
• Inventors: CREMIN, Ronan
• Granted Patent: US 9,141,724 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability

Abstract

A transcoding system (1) comprises a mobile communication device (2) that retrieves a web resource from a web server (6) using a mobile communication network (3) and the internet (4) via a transcoder (5). The transcoder (5) transcodes the web resource before delivering it to the mobile communication device (2). The process of transcoding the web page is carried out based on style sheet classes and/or meta tags in the web page. This allows a web site owner (7) to control the actions of the transcoder (5) in transcoding the web page.

Claims

1. A method of providing a web resource to a mobile communication device, comprising

retrieving a web resource;

transcoding the web resource so as to be suitable for the mobile communication device; and

delivering the transcoded web resource to the mobile communication device,

wherein the step of transcoding the web resource is carried out based on at least one style sheet class provided in the web resource.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of transcoding the web resource comprises altering mark-up language of the web resource based on the at least one style sheet class.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of transcoding comprises removing at least one element from the web resource based on the at least one style sheet class.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of transcoding comprises adding at least one element to the web resource based on the at least one style sheet class.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of transcoding comprising changing the colour of at least one element of the web resource based on the at least one style sheet class.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of transcoding comprises creating a user-accessible menu based on the at least one style sheet class.

7. A method according to claim 1, wherein the style sheet class is a cascaded style sheet class.

8. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of transcoding is carried out based on a meta tag in the web resource.

13. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of delivering the transcoded web page occurs across a network.

14. A method according to claim 13, wherein the network is a mobile communication network.

15. Computer software for carrying out the method of claim 1, when processed by computer processing means.

9. A method of providing a web resource to a user, comprising retrieving a web resource;

transcoding the web resource so as to be suitable for the mobile communication device; and

delivering the transcoded web resource to the mobile communication device,

wherein the transcoding step is carried out based on a meta tag in the web resource.

10. A method according to claim 9, wherein the meta tag is contained in a head section of mark-up language of the web resource.

11. A method according to claim 9, wherein step of transcoding comprises introducing elements into the web resource based on meta-tags in the web resource.

12. A method according to claim 9, wherein the step of transcoding is carried out based on the provision of a licence key in the meta tag.

16. An apparatus for providing a web resource, the apparatus comprising a transcoder for:

retrieving a web resource;

transcoding the web resource so as to be suitable for the mobile communication device; and

delivering the transcoded web resource to the mobile communication device,

wherein the step of transcoding the web resource is carried out based on at least one style sheet class provided in the web resource.

17. An apparatus for providing a web resource to a user, the apparatus comprising a transcoder for:

retrieving a web resource;

transcoding the web resource so as to be suitable for the mobile communication device; and

delivering the transcoded web resource to the mobile communication device,

wherein the transcoding step is carried out based on a meta tag in the web resource.