Patent ID: 6874009
Filing Date: 2005-03-29
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method to operate a server for serving documents to a remote device, the method comprising: a. Receiving, at the server, a request for a remote document from the remote device; b. Rendering the entire remote document into a first image; c. Dividing the first image into a plurality of sections; d. Compressing the plurality of sections into a plurality of compressed sections respectively; e. Transmitting the plurality of compressed sections to the remote device in a sequence according to a display priority; and f. Charging a fee for a connection to the server from the remote device, the server rendering an entire web page having links and text in a non-image format into an image in an image format, the image being transmitted in a compressed format through the connection to the remote device for display when the server receives a request for the web page from the remote device, the image being larger than a display area of the remote device.