Patent ID: 7941515
Filing Date: 2011-05-10
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for applying a filter to state information sent from a server to a client, comprising: receiving a subscription request from a subscribing client, the subscription request requesting a subscription for the subscribing client; establishing a subscriber value from the subscription request, the subscriber value comprising a device type that identifies a format capability of the subscribing client indicating that the subscribing client cannot parse an element of a Portable Document Format (PDF) document; the device type identifying a cellular telephone device type; determining a filter set corresponding to the format capability, the filter set comprising one or more filters each configured to filter state information sent from the server to the subscribing client, a first filter configured to exclude the element that the subscribing client cannot parse; obtaining the state information for the subscribing client, the state information placed in a PDF document comprising the element; and applying the first filter to the state information to exclude the element from the PDF document.