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The company's servers reformat pages for the tiny screens.
The company thus has years of experience in analysing how web pages are designed and coded, which it has been able to exploit in the development of its "small-screen rendering" algorithm.All the reformatting is done within the browser on the phone, rather than using a "proxy server" sitting on the mobile-phone operator's network to reformat pages before transmitting them to the handset.
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The systems are often paired with flat-screen television sets that provide all the clarity of a PC without the problem of reformatting pages to fit traditional Web-TV services.
Handspring's browser does an okay job of reformatting pages to fit, and the Sidekick's horizontal screen helps it work without color.
One standard adopted to reformat such pages, called Wireless ApplicaTion Protocol, has helped the miniaturization, but not all sites have been converted.
Some commercial products reformat web pages.
Its browser, called Blazer, automatically reformats Web pages for viewing on the organizer's screen.
Mobile browsers have been reformatting Web pages going back more than a decade.
The patent covers methods for reformatting Web pages onto TVs and mobile devices, as well as for manipulating those Web pages using zooming and scrolling techniques.
Online Anywhere, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based software developer that Yahoo! yhoo acquired this week for $80 million in stock, has come the closest, with software that reformats web pages for delivery to non-PC devices.
The back-end servers of Danger, the Sidekick's developer, generally do a fine job of reformatting Web pages for the little screen, although they did turn some baseball line scores into meaningless columns of digits.
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