Systems, methods and computer program products for modifying web content for display via pervasive computing devices

US6457030B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Samuel S. Adams · Rutherfordton, US
• Stefan Georg Hild · Zürich, CH
• Richard O. LaMaire · Yorktown, US
• Hiroshi Maruyama · Tokyo, JP
• Rakesh Mohan · Somers, US
• Sandeep K. Singhal · Kirkland, US
• John R. Smith · New Hyde Park, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 29, 1999
• Grant date: Sep 24, 2002
• Expiry date: Jan 29, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F16/9577
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for modifying Web content files, such as HTML files, for display via pervasive computing devices that have smaller displays and various performance limitations compared with desktop computing devices. Upon receiving a request from a pervasive computing device for an HTML file, the HTML file is analyzed for a link to a content modification file that contains information about how to modify elements within the HTML file so as to render the HTML file displayable via the pervasive computing device.