Patent ID: 7355608
Filing Date: 2008-04-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for transmitting a graphics file from a transmitting computer and receiving the graphics file on a receiving computer, the method comprising the steps of: a) performing the following steps on the transmitting computer: b) performing the following steps on the receiving computer: wherein the step of transmitting the prioritized graphics file across a network such that higher priority image transmission portions are transmitted before lower priority image transmission portions further comprises the following steps: A) simulating transmission and reception of the first image transmission portion of the prioritized graphics file; B) translating the first image transmission portion into image data; C) determining the location of the first image transmission portion; D) transferring the image data and the location to an image viewer such that the image viewer can display the first image transmission portion at the location; E) waiting a delay; and F) repeating steps A through E in each additional iteration of one or more additional iterations of steps A through E, such that the first image portion is stepped to the next image portion of the prioritized graphics file in the first additional iteration and the next image portion of the prioritized graphics file is sequentially stepped in each subsequent additional iteration, until the entire prioritized graphics file has been transmitted and received.