Patent ID: 9729931
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A method for displaying multimedia content on a screen of a multimedia terminal, the multimedia content being coded by data included in a file stored on a server remote from said terminal in a first format such that the entire file is required by an application that processes said first format to generate a display of said multimedia content on the multimedia terminal screen, the method comprising: requesting, by the multimedia terminal, a transmission of an encoding of the display of a desired portion of the multimedia content in a defined rendering format that is different from said first format; selecting, by the server, a specific application from among a plurality of different applications associated with said server that is compatible with the rendering format defined by the multimedia terminal, in which each of said plurality of different applications is associated with a different rendering format; processing, by the server, the file with said specific application to generate the rendering encoding of said multimedia content according to the rendering format defined by the multimedia terminal, in which said rendering format defined by the multimedia terminal enables the display of only the desired portion of said multimedia content on the multimedia terminal screen without requiring a transmission from said server to said multimedia terminal of the entire file coding said multimedia content; and transmitting, by the server, the encoding of the rendering to the multimedia terminal using a Remote Frame Buffer protocol so that the desired portion of the multimedia content is accessed and displayed by the multimedia terminal.