Patent ID: 7320024

Claim:
In a system for receiving contents from a plurality of web servers and providing the contents to a portable terminal connected via a network, the portable terminal including 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 system, a contents-providing system comprising: a user information database for storing user identification (ID) information; an authentication server for: performing authentication based upon the user ID information by using the user information database when two or more uniform resource locators (URLs), which are channel URLs associated with a set of URLS, each URL of the set corresponding to a web server that provides contents of a predetermined subject, and the user ID information are sent from the portable terminal, and outputting the two or more URLS after performing the authentication; a data server for: requesting contents from a plurality of web servers associated with the two or more URLs, processing the received contents into a predetermined format, gathering the contents of the predetermined subject, binding the gathered contents into a single channel, and transmitting the single channel of contents to the portable terminal, wherein the data server further comprises an image compressor for: receiving the contents from the web server, and reducing image sizes or a number of colors according to a specification of the portable terminal; and a proxy unit for monitoring data transmitted by the web server, and when the contents transmitted by the web server include image information, calling the image compressor.