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.
