Content Adaptation for Heterogeneous Mobile Devices using web-based Mobile Services

Recent advances in mobile computing have spawned a very heterogeneous environment of mobile devices. Those devices have different capabilities in providing mobile services to the user, implying the challenge of considering heterogeneous devices during mobile service development. This especially encompasses the task of adapting the content, which a mobile service provides to a specific mobile device. In this paper we present an approach using a service platform, which utilizes a content adaptation procedure for web-based mobile services by utilizing device capability databases and generic page transformation. This approach enables mobile devices to visualize any generic content device-specifically on their integrated browsers.