System for improving delivery of content by reordering after grouping components homogeneously within content stream based upon categories defined by content preferences

摘要

A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for improved delivery of content to a requesting computer connected to a communications network by a communications device by sending, from the requesting computer, a request for content and a plurality of content preferences. A content stream representing the content is then received on a communications device. Components within the content stream are grouped and reordered based upon at least one of the plurality of content preferences. The reordered content stream is then received on the requesting computer. The content stream may contain data formatted using languages such as HTML or XML. Grouping and reordering of the components can be used to compress the content stream and/or filter components from the content stream. Compression and filtering are especially useful in low bandwidth situations, for example analog or wireless modem connections.