Patent ID: 7349955

Claim:
A web server for transferring data from the Internet to mobile wireless devices that have limited display capabilities, comprising: a web server that is connected to wireless devices via one or more corresponding wireless communications networks of the wireless devices, and is also connected to the Internet, and wherein the web server is further configured to receive requests from users of the wireless devices to view Internet web pages, wherein the requests, which are formatted in a transport protocol by a requesting wireless device to be suitable for transmission over its corresponding wireless communication network, are received by the web server in accordance with that transport protocol, wherein the transport protocol inserts an element that identifies the type of wireless device that is making the request, reformat the requests into IITTP requests, send the HTTP requests to destination servers on the Internet in accordance with an Internet transport protocol, receive the requested web pages from the destination servers, pause data elements contained in the received web pages and remove non-displayable data elements from the web pages to generate displayable web pages based on the wireless device type of the requesting wireless device, and send the web pages, without including the removed data elements, over the wireless communications networks to the requesting wireless device.