Patent ID: 9699242
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a first computer, during a continuous uploading event an incoming stream of packets sent by a second computer, wherein the packets are generated from a media file comprising both at least one image and at least thumbnail image of said at least one image, wherein the at least one thumbnail image of the at least one image is stored in an intended field of a header of said media file and the at least one image is encoded according to a file format of the media file, and wherein packets generated from the at least one thumbnail image of the at one image and packets generated from the at least one image of the media file are transmitted to the first computer; extracting, by the first computer, the at least one thumbnail image of the at least one image of the media file, from one or more of the incoming packets, during the continuous uploading event of said at least one image of the media file and before all the packets of the incoming stream are received and before completing entirely the uploading of said at least one image; and displaying, at the first computer, the at least one thumbnail image of the least one image during the continuous uploading event of said at least one image the media file, before all the packets of the incoming stream are received at the computer and before completing entirely the uploading of said at least one image by the first computer, wherein displaying the thumbnail image comprises displaying the thumbnail image within a web page provided by the first computer to the second computer.