Patent ID: 8648858
Filing Date: 2014-02-11
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for encoding data within a webpage for display on a mobile device connected to a network, the method comprising: retrieving webpage content; identifying text data within the webpage content; extracting text data from the webpage at a full resolution, the extracted text data comprising string text or an image of the text data; applying a lossless encoder to the text data to generate encoded text data comprising compressed, full resolution text data; identifying image data within the webpage content; extracting the image data from the webpage content at the full resolution; downsampling the image data from the full resolution to a lower resolution; applying a lossy encoder to the downsampled image data to generate encoded image data comprising compressed, lower resolution image data; dividing the webpage content into one or more thumbnail tiles, each thumbnail tile including the encoded full resolution text data and the encoded lower resolution image data; transmitting the one or more thumbnail tiles to the mobile device, the webpage content reconstructable at the mobile device using the one or more thumbnail tiles so that the reconstructed webpage content includes the full resolution text data and the lower resolution image data; and responsive to receiving an instruction to zoom in on a portion of the webpage content: