Patent ID: 8467775

Claim:
A method, comprising: on a website, allowing users to store profiles that indicate information that is indicative of a hardware within the user's cellular phone, wherein one item of information represents first hardware for a first user including information defining a specific number of pixels that are displayed by a display of the user's cellular phone, said specific number of pixels in a form of x pixels by y pixels, where x represents a number of pixels across the display in a first direction, and y represents a number of pixels across the display in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and another item of information represents second hardware for a second user; said website having a computer allowing said first and second users to carry out operations with a video program, including all of a first operation that includes selecting a video program from stored video programs, a second operation that includes creating a video program on the website by uploading video from the user's cellular phone and a third operation that includes creating a video program on the website by recording a video program on the website from a source of television programs; said computer on said website, storing plural different video compression algorithms, and automatically converting said video program to a compressed format compatible with said hardware in a way that is optimized for compressing for a specific hardware of the user's cellular phone including the specific number of pixels in the form of x pixels by y pixels forming the display of the first cellular phone, as indicated by the stored profile for the user; and storing said automatically converted video information and sending said automatically converted video information to at least one of different cellular telephone users, said automatically converted video information having different characteristics when sent to said first user than it has been sent to said second user.