Patent ID: 8418056

Claim:
A method for generating a page suitable for display on a mobile communication device based on a webpage from a website server, said method comprising the steps of: requesting the webpage from the website server, wherein said website server includes website content comprising webpages organized into two or more page families: establishing a communication link directly between the website server and the mobile communication device; receiving at least a portion of the webpage over said communication link with said website server; obtaining a signature file comprising one or more transcoding instructions over said communication link with said website server, wherein a transcoding engine determines a page type of the webpage by checking said signature file for string identifiers of each page family; transcoding said received portion of the webpage at the mobile communication device according to said one or more transcoding instructions associated with the page family; mapping data stored locally at the mobile communication device to one or more fields in the webpage according to said one or more transcoding instructions; and generating a page suitable for display on the mobile communication device based on said transcoded portion of the webpage.