System and Method for Rapid Document Conversion

• US 20120131449A1
• Filed: 12/19/2011
• Published: 05/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Halahmi, Erez
• Granted Patent: US 8,839,098 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/249
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 15/00 Coin-freed apparatus with meter-controlled dispensing of liquid, gas or electricity

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method of providing a modular document for display on a wireless communication device is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a request for the modular document from the wireless communication device for display thereon; requesting the document from a document server; retrieving user preferences for display of at least a portion of the modular document; receiving at a conversion server at least a part of the modular document requested for display, the modular document comprising a plurality of modules, wherein at least one format module is inter-related with at least one text module; locating a set of modules for conversion; converting the modular document into a converted file format by the conversion server for display according to the user preferences; and transmitting the converted file format to the wireless communication device for display thereon.

Claims

1. A method of providing a modular document for display on a wireless communication device, the method comprising:

receiving a request for the modular document from the wireless communication device for display thereon;

requesting the document from a document server;

retrieving user preferences for display of at least a portion of the modular document on the wireless communication device;

receiving at a conversion server at least a part of the modular document requested for display on the wireless communication device, but less than a whole of the modular document, the modular document comprising a plurality of modules, wherein a portion of the plurality of modules contains text and a portion of the plurality of modules contains format, and wherein at least one format module is inter-related with at least one text module;

locating a set of modules for conversion, the set of modules comprising at least one text module and a format module inter-related with said text module;

converting the modular document into a converted file format by the conversion server for display on the wireless communication device according to the user preferences; and

transmitting the converted file format to the wireless communication device for display thereon.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein converting the modular document into a converted file format comprises:

locating the set of modules for conversion and retrieving text from the at least one text module;

determining changes to the retrieved text according to the format module; and

applying the determined changes to the retrieved text and converting said retrieved text into converted file format comprising a linear sequence, wherein said determined changes are employed during conversion of said retrieved text as a result of an exchange of information between the inter-related modules during conversion, wherein the changed text may be transmitted to the wireless communication device for display thereon without waiting for other parts of the modular document to be converted.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein applying the determined changes to the retrieved text further comprises:

(i) storing said text module at the conversion server before converting the retrieved text of said text module; and

(ii) analyzing at least one format in said format module.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said converting said retrieved text comprises converting to a first generic file format, and then converting said first generic file format to a specific file format.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein said specific file format is determined according to at least one preference of the user.

6. The method of claim 4, further comprising determining said specific file format according to at least one characteristic of said wireless communication device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the modular document is a word processing document.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said network is a wireless network.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said converted file format is a mark-up language format.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said mark-up language is WML (Wireless Mark-up Language), such that said wireless communication device is a WAP (wireless application protocol) enabled device.

11. A network node comprising:

logic structure for receiving a request for a modular document from a wireless communication device for display thereon, the modular document characterized by a plurality of modules, wherein a portion of the plurality of modules contains text and a portion of the plurality of modules contains format, and wherein at least one format module is inter-related with at least one text module;

logic structure for requesting the modular document from a document server;

logic structure for retrieving user preferences for display of at least a portion of the modular document on the wireless communication device;

logic structure for receiving at least a part of the modular document, but less than a whole of the modular document;

logic structure for locating a set of modules for conversion, the set of modules comprising at least one text module and at least one format module inter-related with said text module; and

logic structure for converting the modular document into a converted file format for display on the wireless communication device according to the user preferences;

wherein the logic structures are stored on a tangible computer readable medium.

12. The network node according to claim 11 wherein the logic structure for converting the modular document into a converted file format comprises:

logic structure for locating the set of modules for conversion and retrieving text from the at least one text module;

logic structure for determining changes to the retrieved text according to the format module; and

logic structure applying the determined changes to the retrieved text and converting said retrieved text into converted file format comprising a linear sequence, wherein said determined changes are employed during conversion of said retrieved text as a result of an exchange of information between the inter-related modules during conversion, wherein the changed text may be transmitted to the wireless communication device for display thereon without waiting for other parts of the modular document to be converted.

13. The network node according to claim 11, further comprising a logic structure for storing said text module of said received part of the modular document.

14. The network node according to claim 11, further comprising a logic structure for converting said retrieved text to a first generic file format, and then convert said first generic file format to a specific file format.

15. The network node according to claim 11, wherein the logic structure for converting said retrieved text comprises converting to a first generic file format, and then converting said first generic file format to a specific file format.

16. The network node according to claim 15, wherein said specific file format is determined according to at least one preference of the user.

17. The network node according to claim 15, further comprising logic structure for determining said specific file format according to at least one characteristic of said wireless communication device.

18. The network node according to claim 11, wherein the modular document is a word processing document.

19. The network node according to claim 11, wherein said wireless communication device is a cellular telephone, and said wireless network is a cellular telephone network.

20. The network node according to claim 11, wherein said converted file format is a mark-up language format.