James Rosewell

A method (300) of generating information for use in identifying a property of a communication device (10) includes identifying (304) one or more substrings within a character string that identifies the communication device. For each substring, an entry is added (306) to a respective one of a plurality of data structures (800), each data structure being designated for storing substrings that occur at a particular character position within the character string. Each entry is associated (310) with… Show more

A method (300) of generating information for use in identifying a property of a communication device (10) includes identifying (304) one or more substrings within a character string that identifies the communication device. For each substring, an entry is added (306) to a respective one of a plurality of data structures (800), each data structure being designated for storing substrings that occur at a particular character position within the character string. Each entry is associated (310) with a profile that includes a value of at least one property of the communication device. Also disclosed is a method (1000) of identifying the properties of a communication device based on such previously-generated information. Show less

A method (300) of generating information for use in identifying a property of a communication device (10) includes identifying (304) one or more substrings within a character string that identifies the communication device. For each substring, an entry is added (306) to a respective one of a plurality of data structures (800), each data structure being designated for storing substrings that occur at a particular character position within the character string. Each entry is associated (310) with… Show more

A method (300) of generating information for use in identifying a property of a communication device (10) includes identifying (304) one or more substrings within a character string that identifies the communication device. For each substring, an entry is added (306) to a respective one of a plurality of data structures (800), each data structure being designated for storing substrings that occur at a particular character position within the character string. Each entry is associated (310) with a profile that includes a value of at least one property of the communication device. Also disclosed is a method (1000) of identifying the properties of a communication device based on such previously-generated information. Show less

Owners of web sites need to understand the capabilities of client communication devices accessing their web sites in order to optimise the content provided to different device types. For example, a news organisation’s web page containing an article will be surrounded by areas highlighting other articles to which the reader can progress. On a mobile phone, a single area listing further articles might be displayed at the top of the page using plain text. On a desktop web browser with its larger… Show more

Owners of web sites need to understand the capabilities of client communication devices accessing their web sites in order to optimise the content provided to different device types. For example, a news organisation’s web page containing an article will be surrounded by areas highlighting other articles to which the reader can progress. On a mobile phone, a single area listing further articles might be displayed at the top of the page using plain text. On a desktop web browser with its larger screen, multiple areas listing additional articles including thumbnail images could be displayed above and to the right of the article. In both cases, the article’s content will be identical. Show less