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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Computer Networks and Communications Volume 2012, Article ID 935653, 15 pages doi:10.1155/2012/935653 Research Article Device Characteristics and Capabilities Discovery for Multimedia Content Mohd Faisal Ibrahim,1 Saadiah Yahya,1 and Mohd Nasir Taib2 1 Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam, Malaysia 2 Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam, Malaysia Correspondence should be addressed to Mohd Faisal Ibrahim, faisal@.my Received 5 January 2012; Revised 20 April 2012; Accepted 21 April 2012 Academic Editor: Yueh M. Huang Copyright © 2012 Mohd Faisal Ibrahim et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The rapid growth of web and mobile technologies has allowed people to access multimedia content from a wide range of heterogeneous client devices that have different characteristics and capabilities. In order to deliver the best presentation of content requested, the web system must possess a mechanism that is able to accurately discover the characteristics and capabilities of a client’s device. Existing content negotiation techniques mainly focus on static profiling approach without considering the combination of static and dynamic approaches that are capable of overcoming the device scalability issues. In view of these issues, we propose a hybrid approach for recognizing devices and their capabilities using token-based method. By proposing such solution, we can provide flexible, extensible, and scalable method that provide