Patent ID: 7565612

Claim:
A method for transmitting information, over a communication network having a first server and a mobile user device, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a request, from the mobile user device and at the first server, for an item of information then desired by a user; retrieving the item of information from its current location; accessing a user profile for the user or a user device profile for the user device for both delineation of a pre-defined property of the item of information and a limit value associated with the property, the predefined property and the limit value being defined by specific operational characteristics of the mobile device or preferences of the user; analyzing the item of information so as to determine whether an actual value of the property of the item of information exceeds the limit value; if the actual value exceeds the limit value, first establishing an interactive session between the first server and the user device during which the first server queries the user, through the user device, by issuing a query to the user device to ascertain, through a user response to the query, whether the user still wants the item of information transmitted to the user device and, if so, whether and how the user wants the information to be modified for transmission to the user device; and if as reflected in the user response the user still wants to receive the item of information, then transmitting, in response to results of the query as indicated in the user response, the item of information to the user device and, if the user specified such a modification in the user response, in a modified form as then requested by the user.