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- Title
Web Page Filtering and Re-Authoring for Mobile Users.
- Authors
Bickmore, Timothy; Girgensohn, Andreas; Sullivan, Joseph W.
- Abstract
The Digestor system automatically converts web-based documents designed for desktop viewing into formats appropriate for handheld devices with small display screens, such as Palm-PCs, PDAs, and cellular phones. Digestor employs a heuristic planning algorithm and a set of structural page transformations to produce the ‘best’ looking document for a given display size. Digestor can also be instructed, via a scripting language, to render portions of documents, thereby avoiding navigation through many screens of information. Two versions of Digestor have been deployed, one that re-authors HTML into HTML for conventional browsers and one that converts HTML into HDML for Phone.com's micro-browsers. Digestor provides a crucial technology for rapidly accessing, scanning and processing information from arbitrary web-based documents from any location reachable by wired or unwired communication.
- Subjects
MOBILE communication systems; HEURISTIC-systematic model (Communication); HTML (Document markup language); HDML (Document markup language); WIRELESS communications; HTML editors (Computer programs)
- Publication
Computer Journal, 1999, Vol 42, Issue 6, p534
- ISSN
0010-4620
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/comjnl/42.6.534