Patent Document ID: 7774831
Application ID: 10745326

Base Claim:
1. In a markup language processing device, a computer-implemented method in which a computer system performs security processing operations on markup language messages on behalf of a recipient computerized device that is to receive the markup language messages, the method comprising: receiving a message from a client computerized device including portions of tagged data formatted in a markup language; applying a transform selection rule set to at least one tagged rule selection data portion in the message to select at least one markup language transformation to apply to at least one tagged pre-transform data portion within the message; applying the selected at least one markup language transformation to the at least one tagged pre-transform data portion to transform the at least one tagged pre-transform data portion in the message to at least one tagged post-transform data portion in the message according to at least one transformation function associated with the at least one markup language transformation; and conditionally forwarding the message back to the client computerized device including the at least one tagged post-transform data portion to the recipient computerized device such that the recipient computerized device is not required to process the message due to operation of the at least one markup language transformation within the markup language processing device.

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Claim 26:
26. The method of claim 1 wherein applying the selected at least one markup language transformation comprises: applying a first transformation to a first tagged pre-transform data portion of the message to produce the at least one tagged post-transform data portion that is an extensible markup language style sheet dynamically generated based on the tagged pre-transform data; and applying a dynamically generated extensible markup language style sheet to a second tagged pre-transform data portion of the message to produce the at least one tagged post-transform data portion that replaces the second tagged pre-transform data in the message.