Patent ID: 7203766

Claim:
A plurality of gateway servers, each comprising: a convert section converting first contents into second contents, wherein said first contents is received from a contents server in response to a request of a small terminal that is broadcast by the contents server to the plurality of gateway servers and said second contents corresponds to a one of a plurality of possible display performances of a display section of said small terminal; and wherein the convert section judges whether said first contents are picture contents, and when said first contents are not picture contents, the convert section does not convert said first contents into said second contents and in that case said gateway server provides said first contents to said small terminal in an unconverted format; and an output section outputting said second contents to said small terminal, wherein said display performance corresponds to the number of display pixels of said display section of said small terminal so that an image corresponding to the picture contents is sized according to a size of the display section of said small terminal, wherein said display performance corresponds to the number of display colors of said display section, and wherein, based on the request of the small terminal as received by each of the plurality of gateway servers, a particular one of the plurality of gateway servers acts on the request based on the one of the plurality of possible display performances of the display section of said small terminal that is included as information in the request of the small terminal.