Patent ID: 7260777
Filing Date: 2007-08-21
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for using a computer to transform information, comprising: identifying a source of data; identifying a source device format type from the source data, if possible; identifying the source device format type, if not already identified; identifying a target device format type; instantiating a source device format document based on the source device format type, if not already instantiated; instantiating a target device format document based on the target device format type, if not already instantiated; converting the source data for use in the source device format document, if necessary; identifying potential page elements from the source data; generating source page elements with identifying source tags within the source device format document, if source data is un-referenced by source page elements; populating source page elements with associated source data; applying attributes associated with the source page elements to the populated source data; identifying page elements in the target device format type; generating target page elements with identifying target tags corresponding to source page elements, if the source page elements have no corresponding target page elements; transforming attributes associated with the generated target page elements according to attributes associated with the target device format document, if available, otherwise, identifying transformation parameters for transforming target page elements based on the differences between the source device format type and target device format type, and transforming attributes associated with the generated target page elements according to a the transformation parameters; populating target page elements corresponding to source page elements with source data; and applying attributes associated with the target page elements to the populated source data.