Patent ID: 7880918
Filing Date: 2011-02-01
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A computer system for generating an output representation, the computer system comprising a processor coupled to a computer storage medium, the computer storage medium having stored thereon a plurality of computer software components executable by the processor, the computer software components comprising: an input interface to receive an electronic document; a rendering engine that is configured for communicating with the input interface to receive the electronic document, and for generating a set of device independent primitives from the electronic document by applying graphical device language (GDL) thereto, wherein the device independent primitives include standardized graphical output functions that represent content of the electronic document; a mediation engine for conditioning the set of device independent primitives into the output representation, wherein conditioning comprises: the device driver that acts as an output interface to the various output devices including the output device, the output device being configured to generate output based on the output representation.