Patent ID: 7526572

Claim:
A system for providing information content received from an information source over a network via a gateway to a wireless mobile device, comprising: an IP proxy system configured within a private network and behind a security firewall for communicating with a wireless mobile device that is outside of the private network, the IP proxy system communicating with the wireless mobile device via a gateway and through a network server that is also configured within the private network and behind the security firewall, the network server enabling secure communication to the wireless mobile device by encrypting communications directed to the wireless mobile device and decrypting communications from the wireless mobile device, the IP proxy system comprising: a transcoding system having a plurality of transcoders, each transcoder operable to transcode information content from a respective input content type into a respective output content type; and a connection handler system external to the transcoding system and having a plurality of connection handlers, the connection handler system being operable to receive a connection request from the wireless mobile device for a connection between the information source and the wireless mobile device and to select a corresponding connection handler based on the connection request from the wireless mobile device, the selected connection handler being operable to request information content from the information source, to transmit information content received from the information source to the transcoding system and operable to specify to the transcoding system one or more transcoders from the plurality of transcoders to use to transcode the information content, the connection handler system further being operable to receive transcoded information content from the transcoding system and to send the transcoded information content to the network server for encryption and transmission to the wireless mobile device.