Patent ID: 7093029

Claim:
A method of doing business for manipulating information retrieved from a content server on a computer network, said method comprising: connecting an intermediary machine between a user device and a web content server; receiving information from the web content server at the intermediary machine, said intermediary machine having access to a plurality of transcoders and a directive script database; transcoding in the intermediary—machine the received information from—the web content server into a transcoded response by at least one of the plurality of transcoders according to at least one directive script from the directive script database, wherein said at least one directive script selectively defines at least one transcoding property of at least one transcoder within the plurality of transcoders; directing, according to the at least one directive script, which of said at least one transcoder are to be run; directing, according to the at least one directive script, what order said at least one transcoder are to be run; sending the transcoded response to the user device; providing a service for storing in the intermediary machine a specific user's profile for a specific user of the user device; providing a service for receiving at the intermediary machine an electronic mail from the specific user of the user device; providing a service for identifying the specific user and associating the specific user with the specific user's profile ire the intermediary machine; providing a service for recognizing a data input error ins the received electronic mail received by the intermediary machine; and providing a service for correcting in the intermediary machine the data input error in the received electronic mail according to instructions from a corrective program called in response to the identifying of the specific user and the specific user's profile.