WebAlchemist: A Web Transcoding System for Mobile Web Access in Handheld Devices

WebAlchemist: A Structure-Aware Web Transcoding System for Mobile Devices

Structure-Aware Web Transcoding for Mobile Devices

As both the number of mobile users and users’ reliance on the Web grows, so does the need for Web access from handheld devices.1 The current disparity between such devices’ available computing resources and the resources required for smooth Web browsing makes it difficult and unpleasant to access Web pages with them. To navigate complex Web pages with a handheld device, a user must scroll down ...

Handheld Computing and Programming for Mobile Commerce

Using Internet-enabled mobile handheld devices to access the World Wide Web is a promising addition to the Web and traditional e-commerce. Mobile handheld devices provide convenience and portable access to the huge information on the Internet for mobile users from anywhere and at anytime. However, mobile commerce has not enjoyed the same level of success as the ecommerce has so far because mobi...

Video Transcoding Gateway for Wireless Video Access

In this paper, we review several typical video transcoding architectures and major applications of video transcoding. We identify issues involved in access video streams through handheld devices and wireless networks. To handle these issues, we propose a video transcoding gateway system for intelligently transcoding pre-encoded video for different user devices and network connections. The main ...

Annotations for HTML to VoiceXML Transcoding: Producing Voice WebPages with Usability in Mind

Web pages contain a large variety of information, but are largely designed for use by graphical web browsers. Mobile access to web-based information often requires presenting HTML web pages using channels that are limited in their graphical capabilities such as small-screens or audio-only interfaces. Content transcoding and annotations have been explored as methods for intelligently presenting ...