The social media giant Facebook has quite recently won an Indian Patent corresponding
to a device, system, and method for adapting information services, code, and
software to comply with the individuals’ device parameters, and for further
enabling proper viewing on their mobile devices or smartphones. This latest
patent gain is a boost to Facebook’s efforts for providing universal support to
a wide range of mobile devices, that too, without compromising on the quality
of the service.
The American social media and technology company received the
patent from the Chennai
Patent Office on 3rd March 2020 especially in today’s era where
information service and content providers are putting in sincere efforts for
accommodating the technological diversity on the screens of the mobile devices
by offering the users with universal support for all devices without
compromising on the functionality and appearance. Facebook had filed the
corresponding Patent Application in 2011 with the title “device,
system, and method for providing distributed online services.”
In its Patent Document, Facebook stated that the invention
consists of a device, system, and method for running various mobile
applications, including a client and a server, installed in a mobile device.
The client connects to the server through a network, displays the content,
receives user input, and then, in turn, sends that user input to the server. On
the other hand, the server gets the user input from the client and then
displays the content for running applications on the mobile device.
While shedding some light on the subject, the patent document
specified that the mobile devices come in with multiple varieties of hardware
and software, having different operating systems, input controls, and screen
solutions. One way of offering universal support is by porting, which indeed
has many disadvantages, such as it is both costly and time-consuming to a great
extent. Porting refers to the process of adapting the code or software in such
a way that it conforms to a computing environment that is different from the
one for which the software had been designed originally.
For instance, for displaying the website code on the screen of a
mobile device with a browser different from the one for which it was written,
the website code may require altering to comport with the capabilities and
requirements of the different browsers. The patent document further stated that
several versions of a service solution must be generated with variations for
matching the particular software and hardware combinations existing on the
target mobile devices. At present, the lowest common denominator of the
function, by default, is used as a common solution for offering universal
service in the technologically diverse world of mobile devices.
Various online service providers make use of wireless protocol
websites, which are the adaptations of their regular websites itself with
reduced and cut-down versions of features, content, and functionality. Facebook
submitted the innovation for taking advantage of the advanced capabilities for
which the parallel versions of the service must be efficiently developed,
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