System and method for processing syndication information for a mobile device

A method on a news aggregation server, said method comprising:

• said news aggregation server maintaining a syndication server listing that identifies a plurality of XML news syndication servers;
• said news aggregation server receiving and storing subscription information for a corresponding mobile device, the subscription information:
• identifying at least one subscriber-specified XML news syndication server from the plurality of XML news syndication servers,
• indicating a subscriber-specified maximum number of updated news articles for each of the at least one subscriber-specified XML news syndication server, wherein said XML news syndication server is a server that performs formatting of news syndication information into an XML format, wherein the news syndication information is to be displayed on the mobile device, and
• indicating a subscriber-specified periodic interval for how frequently to send updated news articles to the corresponding mobile device;
• said news aggregation server polling each XML news syndication server identified in the syndication server listing at a server-configured periodic polling interval associated with each syndication server, said polling to obtain updated syndication information from each XML news syndication server;
• said news aggregation server aggregating updated syndication information from said plurality of XML news syndication servers to prepare an aggregated set list of up to the subscriber-specified maximum number of updated news articles from the at least one subscriber-specified XML news syndication server based on the subscription information for the corresponding mobile device;
• said news aggregation server generating a mobile syndication document with the aggregated list of updated news articles adapted into a predetermined format optimized for wireless delivery;
• and
• said news aggregation server sending the mobile syndication document from the news aggregation server to the corresponding mobile device via a wireless communication network at the subscriber-specified periodic interval if the at least one subscriber-specified XML news syndication server has been updated since a previous mobile syndication document was sent to the corresponding mobile device.