Patent ID: 8078760

Claim:
A method for sharing a digital asset within a user group via a network portal of the user group, the method comprising: receiving an unmodified digital asset in a native format; transforming the unmodified digital asset into a derived digital asset of a specified format suitable for access via a handheld device of a first remote user; receiving from the first remote user a request for a digital asset derived from the unmodified digital asset but suitable for access via the handheld device; interrogating the handheld device to determine one or more of a characteristic of the handheld device and a preference of the first remote user; via the network portal of the user group and based on the one or more of the characteristic and the preference, offering the first remote user the derived digital asset of the specified format; and in response to the first remote user requesting the derived digital asset of the specified format from the network portal of the user group, sending said derived digital asset of the specified format to the handheld device.