Patent ID: 7596645

Claim:
A process for transferring data from a data-preparing device to a data-requesting device, comprising: the data-requesting device requests, over a network, requested data to be transmitted to it by the data-preparing device; the data-requesting device transmits to the data-preparing device over the network information data about the capabilities of the data-requesting device, said information data transmitted by the data-requesting device including a list of usable display formats for the data-requesting device, said list comprising a plurality of display formats; the data-preparing device then, according to availability at the data-preparing device, automatically selects the best-suited a single display format from the list of usable display formats transmitted by the data-requesting device; the requested data being stored in a central data bank of the data-preparing device; a formatting device formats, on call, the requested data into the selected display format; and the data-preparing device then transmits the requested data over the network to the data-requesting device in the selected display format.