Patent ID: 7200615
Filing Date: 2007-04-03
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for document viewing on a client-side device, comprising: (a) receiving, at a server, first user generated data communicated from the client-side device, the first user generated data including document data corresponding to a document to be viewed on the client-side device and client-side display device data corresponding to a client-side display device display capabilities; (b) generating, at the server, a first image portion and a second image portion of the document to be viewed on the client-side device, the first image portion being a portion of the document corresponding to client-side display device data, the second image portion being a portion of the document corresponding to client-side display device data, the first image portion being intra-document to be viewed spatially related to the second image portion; (c) generating, at the server, a split-bar image to indicate a visual separation between image portions; (d) stitching, at the server, the first image portion, the second image portion, and the split-bar image to create a composite image; (e) transmitting the composite image to the client-side device to be displayed by the client-side display device; (f) receiving, at the server, second user generated data communicated from the client-side device, the second user generated data including data relating to a new viewpoint of the document being viewed on the client-side display device; (g) generating, at the server, a third image portion, the third image portion being a portion of the document corresponding to the new viewpoint of the document being viewed on the client-side display device; (h) stitching, at the server, the first image portion, the third image portion, and the split-bar image to create a new composite image; and (i) transmitting the new composite image to the client-side device to be displayed by the client-side display device.