Mobile content service
AssigneeNetworks Solutions, LLC
InventorsMatthew Jonathan Ho, Brendan McLean
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Abstract
Standard content created for use on non-mobile platforms, such as personal computers, is made available and useful to mobile devices. A request for content from a mobile device is sent to a mobile server using the DNS or a redirect from a standard content server. The mobile server obtains the standard content and normalizes it for use on the mobile device. The normalized content is sent to the requesting mobile device.
Claims14
A method for providing mobile content based on standard content, the method comprising:
- receiving at a web server hosting standard content from a mobile device a request for content;
- determining that the request originates from the mobile device;
- redirecting the request to a standard-to-mobile conversion server;
- receiving a reverse proxy call from the standard-to-mobile conversion server for the standard content as requested by the mobile device user;
- and
- sending to the standard-to-mobile conversion server the requested standard content;
- retrieving a mobile device profile based upon information about the requesting device derived from the request for content;
- converting the standard content to mobile content based at least partly upon the retrieved profile;
- and
- sending the mobile content to the mobile device.
A method for providing mobile content based on standard content, the method comprising:
- receiving from a mobile device at a web server hosting standard content a request for content;
- determining that the request originates from the mobile device;
- redirecting the request to a standard-to-mobile conversion server;
- receiving a reverse proxy call from the standard-to-mobile conversion server for the standard content as requested by the mobile device user;
- and
- sending to the standard-to-mobile conversion server the requested standard content.
A method for providing mobile content based on standard content, the method comprising:
- receiving at a standard-to-mobile conversion server a request from a user for web content for a mobile device, the request including a first URL;
- looking up a second URL for the standard content based upon the first URL;
- sending a reverse proxy call to standard content server requesting standard content associated with the second URL;
- receiving the requested standard content;
- converting the received standard content into content to be rendered by the mobile device;
- and
- sending the converted content to the mobile device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.