Flash video enabler for ios devices

Abstract

The invention relates to a system to enable playing flash video content in an iOS environment, to a server used in this system and to a corresponding method. The system comprises an iOS based user terminal comprising a browser to establish an Internet connection to a first server providing access of the user terminal to user requested websites containing flash videos, the first server being adapted to recognize flash video objects if present on the user requested websites and to transmit a modified content of the requested website to the user terminal in case of recognized flash video content, where the flash video content of the requested website is replaced by a reference suitable to access a second server providing video content playable on the iOS based user terminal, the browser of the user terminal being adapted to establish a connection to the second server via the transmitted reference in case of the user of the terminal uses a start button present within the transmitted content of the requested website displayed on the user terminal in order to play the video content, and the second server being adapted to transmit a video in a format playable on the iOS based user terminal comprising the content of the original flash video to the user terminal in response to the use of the start button displayed on the user terminal.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.