Patent ID: 7664870
Filing Date: 2010-02-16
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method in a client application of a client computing device for providing a low fidelity representation of data until a high fidelity representation of the same data becomes available, the method comprising: establishing a communication channel between the client computing device and a content server providing datasets for download by the client computing device, wherein a dataset represents data and comprises at least a low fidelity representation of the data and a high fidelity representation of the data, the low fidelity representation of the data being divided into portions such that when a portion is received the portion can be used without having to wait until the other portions of the low fidelity representation of the data is received, the high fidelity representation of the data not being divided into portions such that the high fidelity representation of the data cannot be used until all the high fidelity representation of the data is received; and upon detecting a need to download data from the content server,