Patent ID: 7266588
Filing Date: 2007-09-04
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A data server, to which a portable terminal is connected via a network for receiving contents from a plurality of web servers that respectively provide the contents, comprising: an image compressor for reducing sizes or number of colors of images; a proxy unit for determining whether a uniform resource locator (URL) received from the portable terminal is a channel URL associated with a set of URLS, each URL of the set corresponding to a web server that provides contents of a predetermined subject, and if so, requesting the contents from the plurality of web servers associated with the respective URLs of the set, monitoring the contents received from the plurality of web servers in response to the requesting to determine whether any of the received contents include image information, and if any of the received contents include image information, calling the image compressor to convert the image information by reducing sizes or number of color of images according to standard of the portable terminal; a channel generator for gathering the received contents of the predetermined subject and binding the gathered contents into a single channel of contents prior to transmission of the single channel of contents to the portable terminal, wherein the proxy unit transmits the single channel of contents to portable terminal, and wherein the portable terminal includes a plurality of channel icons that respectively have channel URL information of a predetermined subject, and wherein a user selection of a channel icon of the portable terminal causes the respective channel URL to be transmitted from the portable terminal to the data server.