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System and method for providing contents on a network

  • US 7,320,024 B2
  • Filed: 07/24/2001
  • Issued: 01/15/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a system for receiving contents from a plurality of web servers and providing the contents to a portable terminal connected via a network, the portable terminal including a plurality of channel icons that respectively have channel URL information of a predetermined subject, and wherein a user selection of a channel icon of the portable terminal causes the respective channel URL to be transmitted from the portable terminal to the system, a contents-providing system comprising:

  • a user information database for storing user identification (ID) information;

    an authentication server for;

    performing authentication based upon the user ID information by using the user information database when two or more uniform resource locators (URLs), which are channel URLs associated with a set of URLS, each URL of the set corresponding to a web server that provides contents of a predetermined subject, and the user ID information are sent from the portable terminal, andoutputting the two or more URLS after performing the authentication;

    a data server for;

    requesting contents from a plurality of web servers associated with the two or more URLs,processing the received contents into a predetermined format,gathering the contents of the predetermined subject, binding the gathered contents into a single channel, andtransmitting the single channel of contents to the portable terminal,wherein the data server further comprises an image compressor for;

    receiving the contents from the web server, andreducing image sizes or a number of colors according to a specification of the portable terminal; and

    a proxy unit for monitoring data transmitted by the web server, and when the contents transmitted by the web server include image information, calling the image compressor.

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