Patent ID: 6925606
Filing Date: 2005-08-02
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. In a client server network providing at least one application service for selection by a user via a client device, a method for transmitting to and displaying on the display device of the client device display requests of the requested application service which are not supported by the client device, comprising: downloading from the server and executing on the client device a display engine; initializing a protocol engine with parameters of the client device comprising display operations supported by the client device, the relative cost of each supported operation and a local performance factor and parameters of the connection from the server to the display engine comprising bandwidth and latency; executing on the server the protocol engine comprising the steps of: executing the display engine comprising the steps of: upon receipt of the second sequence identifier, the protocol engine further comprising the steps of: wherein transmitting the encoded display request to the display engine includes a color quality data transformation including: selecting a quality level to apply to a set of image data having a number of significant color bits defining an initial number of possible colors; applying a pixel mask to the set of image data, the initial number of possible colors reduced to a smaller number of possible colors as a function of the quality level; loading the set of image data into an output buffer; and sending the set of image data from the output buffer to the display engine.