Patent ID: 7305453

Claim:
A contents conversion method in a contents conversion server, which is connected to a plurality of user terminals and a plurality of contents providing servers through a network, comprising: receiving, from a certain user terminal of said plurality of user terminals, access destination information and information concerning a type of said certain user terminal or an access requesting source in said certain user terminal; if said access destination information is interpreted to represent only said contents conversion server as an access destination, transmitting, to said certain user terminal, information including link information causing access via said contents conversion server to a contents providing server registered in said contents conversion server in advance; and if said access destination information is interpreted to represent contents information in one of said plurality of said contents providing servers as an access destination, performing a conversion processing, and wherein performing said conversion processing comprises: acquiring contents information represented in said access destination information from said one of plurality of said contents providing servers; by converting said contents information of an arbitrary format, based on said information concerning said type of said certain user terminal or said access requesting source in said certain user terminal, and by further converting link information included in said contents information in accordance with a predetermined rule to convert an original link destination into a format in which said contents conversion server is set as an access destination and information concerning said original link destination is included, generating converted contents information; and transmitting the converted contents information to said certain user terminal.