Patent ID: 7801958

Claim:
Apparatus for providing data services to mobile devices in a system comprising a data network, at least one content server accessible via the data network, at least one gateway for accessing the data network, a mobile telephone network for communicating between the mobile devices and said at least one gateway, and a content converter separate from the at least one gateway, separate from the at least one content server, and connected to the data network, the apparatus comprising: a data store associated with the content converter for storing indications of the characteristics of each terminal device; receiving means at the content converter for receiving content for a particular mobile terminal from said at least one content server, said at least one content server being connected to the data network so that said content converter is directly accessible by said at least one content server through the data network bypassing said at least one gateway; logic for adjusting content for the particular mobile terminal in the content converter according to the stored characteristics of the mobile terminal; and sending means for routing the adjusted content through the data network to said at least one gateway for forwarding to said particular mobile terminal.