Patent ID: 8694681

Claim:
An article of manufacture including a non-transitory, tangible computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a computer-based system for serving dynamic content to a microbrowser, cause the computer-based system to perform operations comprising: receive by a server computer a generic page request sent from a microbrowser device while the microbrowser is performing online browsing, the requested page having a plurality of web objects stored by the server computer; interrogate the microbrowser device to retrieve and receive a data set associated with the page request, the data set containing a plurality of user-defined download limitations, and the data set being selected by the microbrowser device from a superset of download limitations disposed in the microbrowser device according to one or more state conditions of the microbrowser device, wherein the data set includes at least a limitation regarding downloading of objects which require the microbrowser to perform animation operations; select by the server computer at least one web object of the request page having characteristics which meet the user-defined download limitations; and transmit by the server computer to the microbrowser device the selected web object while blocking download of web objects of the requested page which do not meet the download limitations.