Receiving content having features that are supportable using capabilities of a computing device
View Patent ↗A method, system, and medium are provided for receiving content that has features, which are supportable using capabilities of a computing device. On the computing device, an application is installed or removed. A determination is made as to whether the installation or removal changed an ability of the computing device to support content having certain features. The computing device provides to an interface an indication that describes an ability of the computing device to support content features. The indication is usable by the interface to facilitate an exchange of information between the computing device and a content server.
1. Non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions thereon that, when executed, cause a mobile computing device to perform a method of receiving content that has features that are supportable using capabilities of the mobile computing device, the method comprising:
on the mobile computing device, removing an installation of an application, which provides a capability to the mobile computing device that enables the mobile computing device to support a feature associated with content to be received;
transforming by the mobile computing device a list of capabilities of the mobile computing device to indicate that the capability enabling the mobile computing device to support the feature is not provided by any application installed on the mobile computing device;
providing to an interfacing application running on the mobile computing device a notification, which indicates that the mobile computing device does not support the feature, wherein the interfacing application facilitates transmission of content requests from the mobile computing device to content servers;
detecting by the interfacing application that a request to receive a content item is to be sent from the mobile computing device to a content server; and updating data of the request to indicate that the mobile computing device does not support the feature, wherein the request that has been updated is transmitted from the mobile computing device to the content server.
2. The media of claim 1 , wherein the feature includes a multimedia file format.
3. The media of claim 1 , wherein the feature includes a webpage file format.
4. The media of claim 1 , wherein the feature includes a file size.
5. A method of receiving content having features that are supportable using capabilities of the mobile computing device, the method comprising:
on the mobile computing device installing an application that provides a capability to the mobile computing device that enables the mobile computing device to support a feature associated with content to be received;
transforming by the mobile computing device a list of capabilities of the mobile computing device to indicate that the capability enabling the mobile computing device to support the feature is provided by some application installed on the mobile computing device;
providing to an interfacing application running on the mobile computing device a notification, which indicates that the mobile computing device supports the feature, wherein the interfacing application facilitates transmission of content requests from the mobile computing device to content servers;
detecting by the interfacing application that a request to receive a content item is to be sent from the mobile computing device to a content server; and
updating data of the request to indicate that the mobile computing device supports the feature, wherein the request that has been updated is transmitted from the mobile computing device to the content server.