Patent ID: 6684257
Filing Date: 2004-01-27
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
A method of validating Web content tailored for display within a pervasive computing device in response to a simulated request from the pervasive computing device generated by a data processing system that is not the pervasive computing device, the method comprising the following steps:building a simulated HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request of a pervasive computing device via a separate data processing system that is not the pervasive computing device, wherein the simulated HTTP request includes a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that identifies a location of Web content, and wherein the simulated HTTP request includes an HTTP header that contains information about the pervasive computing device; issuing the simulated HTTP request from the data processing system independently of the pervasive computing device to a Web server identified in the simulated HTTP request; receiving at the data processing system independently of the pervasive computing device an HTTP response from the Web server, wherein the HTTP response includes Web content tailored for display within the pervasive computing device by a transcoding proxy adapted to tailor Web content for display within pervasive computing devices; and comparing the received HTTP response with an expected response.