US 6,556,217 B1 · System and method for content adaptation and pagination based on terminal capabilities

Abstract

A system, method and computer program for paginating information received from a content provider so that it may be displayed on any type of user terminal having any size screen and having different types of mechanisms for input of information. This system has a pagination and terminal adaptation module which will calculate the space needed by element to be displayed on a user terminal. The pagination and terminal adaptation module will then determine if sufficient space exits on the user terminal screen to display the element. When sufficient space does not exist on the user terminal screen then the pagination and terminal adaptation module will resize the element when possible in order to make it fit. The pagination and terminal adaptation module accesses a database of user terminal profile information to determine the characteristics of the user terminal as well as the screen size. This system further is able to transmit information in a continuous stream to the user terminal or as a single element that will only update a portion of the user terminal screen. Using this system a user is able to access web site pages regardless of the type of terminal being used and no matter how small the screen size is.

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Dependent claims

A method of information pagination in order to display the information on a user terminal screen, comprising:

identifying a user terminal type and screen size upon logon of a user terminal;
extracting layout rules and typographical settings from a database based on the user terminal type;
calculating the space required to display an element of a plurality of elements of a page of information on the user terminal screen;
determining if the space required to display the element is available on the user terminal screen;
resizing the element when the determination is made that there is not adequate space on the user terminal screen to display the element;
and
displaying the element according to the layout rules and typographical settings on the user terminal screen.

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A computer program executable by computer and embodied on a computer readable medium for information pagination in order to display information on a user terminal screen, comprising:

a database to store information to display on the user terminal screen and to store a terminal profile for a plurality of user terminals;
a client connection handler code segment to communicate to a user terminal and retrieve information from the database and transmit the information to user terminal for display on the user terminal screen;
and
a pagination engine code segment to determine, based on the terminal profile, if each element of a plurality of elements contained in the information retrieved from the database will fit in available space on the user terminal screen and to resize the element so that the element will fit into the space available on the user terminal screen when it is determined that the element will not fit in the space available on the user terminal screen.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

System and method for content adaptation and pagination based on terminal capabilities

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