Mobile Content Delivery via Vectorized Format Conversion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile users face challenges in accessing and sharing visual information during voice calls due to limited display area, resolution, and rendering capabilities of mobile terminals, as well as the need for internet access and pre-installed viewing applications, making it impractical to share content effectively outside the corporate network.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that reformats content into a scalable digital printout using a printing interface on a source device, such as a personal computer, before providing it to a mobile terminal, utilizing a messaging gateway for secure delivery and rendering, which includes reformatting into vectorized formats like SVG and signaling the terminal for download across cellular networks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If content is delivered in original format designed for large displays, then content quality is maintained, but mobile terminal rendering becomes impossible or extremely slow
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms content from formats optimized for large displays (PDF, Word, PowerPoint) into a scalable vector graphics format (SVG) that adapts to mobile display parameters. This parameter change in file format enables the same content to be efficiently rendered on small mobile screens while preserving quality, resolving the contradiction between maintaining content quality and enabling mobile rendering.
2Loss of information
If e-mail attachments are downloaded normally, then content is accessible, but download time increases and cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the parameter of file format from traditional e-mail attachment formats (PDF, DOC, PPT) to SVG format. This format transformation significantly reduces file size while maintaining content quality, enabling faster and more cost-effective delivery to mobile devices without compromising content accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the content delivery process into two phases: first, transforming content to a compact SVG format that can be quickly transmitted; second, delivering the compressed content via e-mail or other channels. This segmentation reduces the burden on mobile devices and network bandwidth, addressing the download time and cost issues.
3Ease of operation
If viewing applications are pre-installed on mobile terminal, then content can be viewed, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the mobile device universally compatible with content by converting all content types (PDF, Word, PowerPoint) into the SVG format, which can be natively rendered by standard mobile web browsers. This eliminates the need for device-specific viewing applications, as the SVG format serves as a universal intermediary that works across different mobile platforms and browsers.
4Productivity
If content is optimized for mobile delivery, then download speed improves, but content must be reformatted which loses original formatting
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates an SVG copy of the original content that preserves the visual appearance and structure of the source documents. This SVG copy maintains formatting, layout, and visual fidelity while being optimized for mobile delivery, allowing fast download speeds without sacrificing the original content's formatting and presentation.
Data Source
AI summary
A system for providing content to a mobile terminal includes a source and a messaging gateway. The source is capable of reformatting content intended for receipt by a terminal, and transferring the reformatted content and an address of the terminal to the messaging gateway. The content can be reformatted in any of a number of different manners, including for example, a vectorized format such as the scalable vector graphics (SVG) format. In response to receiving the reformatted content and address of the terminal, the messaging gateway is capable of signaling the terminal, the signaling including information required to access the reformatted content. As such, the terminal can thereafter send a request to the messaging gateway in response to the messaging gateway signaling the destination client, and thereafter download the reformatted content from the messaging gateway, such as at least partially across a cellular network.