Patent ID: 8019897
Filing Date: 2011-09-13
Classification: G06F,G06T,G09G,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for viewing, on a client-side device, documents requested from a server-side device, the client-side device and server-side device having a communication link therebetween, comprising: (a) generating a request from a client-side device to be sent to a server-side device, the request identifying a document, and a section of the document to be sent to the client-side device; (b) the server-side device retrieving, in response to receiving the request from the client-side device, the requested document and the requested section of the requested document; (c) the server-side device compressing, using a compression format compatible with the client-side device, the section of the requested document into a compressed image; (d) the server-side device communicating the compressed section of the requested document to the client side device; (e) the server-side device communicating a decompressed image to the client side device when a size of the compressed section of the requested document is greater than a size of the image to be rendered on the display of the client-side device; and (f) the client-side device displaying the decompressed image.