Patent Document ID: 7546527
Application ID: 09800330

Base Claim:
1. A method for extracting data from a document formatted using a first markup language and presenting the extracted data using a second, different markup language, the method comprising: providing a content converter system operating as an interface between a client and a server, the content converter system including one or more templates for extracting data from documents, a template table associating each template with a network location identifier of a particular document and a particular target markup language, and a markup language application for reformatting the extracted data using a different markup language; receiving a content request from the client by the content converter system, said content request specifying a network location from which a specified document including formatted content in the first markup language can be retrieved, said content request further indicating the second target markup language; responsive to the content request, identifying a template which corresponds to said specified document and said target markup language using the template table, said template providing at least one content marker, wherein the at least one content marker indicates a data offset for identifying within the specified document one or more data fields containing information corresponding to at least one among a type of data and a particular action, wherein the template further specifies at least one among markup language tags, code, and additional text to associate with the information contained in a particular data field when presented in said target markup language, and wherein said template can be customized by a user to extract in one or more different combinations from the specified document information based upon the at least one content marker; retrieving said specified document from said specified network location; applying said template to said specified document and extracting data from said formatted content based upon the template, by: identifying a presentation order of the at least one content marker in said template; and extracting the information in said data fields from said specified document in accordance with the presentation order; and formatting said information by the markup language application of the content converter system for presentation in said presentation order based upon said associated markup language tags, code, and additional text specified in the template, wherein said formatting produces a second document formatted for presentation according to the second target markup language.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: conveying said second document to said client; presenting said second document through a user interface of said client.