A method of generating relevant promotional materials for transmission to a mobile device includes receiving a query from the mobile device, identifying a plurality of advertisements associated with an advertiser-directed delivery parameter that match parameters for the mobile device, and generating a response to the query comprising search results and the plurality of advertisements.

Targeted mobile advertisements

A method and system for providing portions of information content to a client device is presented. The present application provides a manner of personalizing information content for display on handheld or mobile devices. A user may identify sections of a web page as clips, and then request only the identified section instead of the entire web page from a server. Upon receiving the request, the server will load the web page, retrieve the identified section, transform the identified section for display on the client device, and then send the transformed information to the client device. The clip of information is then a live update from a web page that presents the latest content from a web page instead of a cached web page section.

Method and system for providing portions of information content to a client device

It is possible to provide a server device, a content distribution method, and a program which can transfer a dynamic image stream compatible with various terminals having different performance information via an IP network or a line exchange network and reproduce a high-quality dynamic image or an audio at a terminal when a content includes a dynamic image or an audio. The server device (102) which transmits a content to a terminal (103) via a network (105) includes: a control/analysis unit (108) and a transcoder (109). The control/analysis unit (108) transmits and receives information including terminal performance. The transcoder (109) inputs a content including a video or an audio and information from the control/analysis unit (108). If necessary, the transcoder (109) converts at least one of a codec, a bit rate, a resolution, and a file format of the content so as to be appropriate for the terminal performance and transmits the converted content.

Server device, content distribution method, and program

A platform for customized rendering of markup language (ML) documents into a document in a device specific language that is subsequently provided for display by a target remote device. A rendering context for the target remote device and an ML document is received by the platform, which performs processes that can paginate and fully render pages that are subsequently delivered for display by the target remote device. A post-rendering process may also be provided to perform additional processing of media items for the device specific language document. This additional processing may include including links to or embedding media items in pages of the device specific language document. The remote device can be arranged as a client device that provides for wired and/or wireless communication over a network.

Platform for rendering content for a remote device

The invention provides a content providing system for making it possible to use URL information retained in a PC terminal from a mobile terminal and store content acquired as the mobile terminal accesses any URL in the PC terminal. The content providing system of the invention is a content providing system including a PC terminal 20, a mobile terminal 30 that can conduct communications with the PC terminal 20, and a Web server 10 for providing content data for the PC terminal 20 through the Internet. The PC terminal 20 has a folder 21 storing the content identifier corresponding to the content data; and an information table 28 made up of a user ID for each mobile terminal and a terminal ID and terminal specifications of the mobile terminal corresponding to the user ID. When access is made from the mobile terminal 30, if the user ID and the terminal ID extracted from the mobile terminal 30 are stored in the information table 28, the mobile terminal 30 is permitted to access the folder 21, and selects the content identifier stored in the folder 21.

Information processing terminal, content providing system, content providing method, and content providing program

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem wherein when a Web page for a PC is displayed by a portable terminal, a screen for the PC can't be displayed correctly as it is by the portable terminal due to a small screen size of the portable terminal, operation of a cursor key, and a difference in markup language and image display format between the services. SOLUTION: Information in HTML language downloaded from a Web site is converted to XHTMLBasic format by an HTML converting part 14, and the information converted into the XHTMLBasic format by a document generating part 15 is converted into contents for the portable terminal by a predetermined conversion rule description file, the image format and image size of the image data are converted for the portable terminal by an image conversion part 16, and further the contents are divided into parts of size corresponding to the screen of the portable terminal 21a by a page dividing part 18. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Kazumasa Matsuo

Papers

Contents conversion system for portable terminal and contents conversion method