A general approach to the construction of optimal methods of recovery of li
near functionals from a known solution of the dual extremal problem is prop
osed which is based on a certain parametrization of this solution of the du
al problem. Using this approach several optimal recovery problems in Hardy-
Sobolev classes are successfully solved, including the recovery of function
s from information about their Fourier coefficients or about the values of
the function at some system of nodes, in the periodic and non-periodic case
s.