Matthew E Poole

US Patent:

20020107891, Aug 8, 2002

Filed:

Feb 6, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/068236

Inventors:

Andrew Leamon - Wayne PA, US
Andrew Monroe - Philadelphia PA, US
Matthew Poole - Philadelphia PA, US
John Lommock - Hatboro PA, US

International Classification:

G06F015/00

US Classification:

707/513000

Abstract:

A system and method for formatting content for display on a device is disclosed. One or more data sources of information objects comprising at least one computer language object, at least one browser object, and at least one device object are maintained. A request for information is received from a device over a global communications network. A device type is identified, the device type comprising a communication format, a browser type, and a hardware type. The content is retrieved in response to the request and is formatted in a standard markup language regardless of the identified device type. One of the computer language objects for the identified communication format, one of the browser objects for the identified browser type, and one of the device objects for the identified hardware type are retrieved from at least one of the data sources. Based on the retrieved computer language object, browser object and device object, the content is reformatted into a language that enables display of the content on the device. The reformatted content is delivered to the device over the global communications network. Also disclosed is a method and system for formatting data requested from an application program interface via an application to enable processing of the data in the application to account for data retrieval speed restrictions, memory restrictions and processing capabilities, and/or necessary format translations (including schema remapping).