Patent ID: 6978418
Filing Date: 2005-12-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for associating an active region with a corresponding position within an image included in a page displayed by a browser running on a client computer, the method comprising: sending a request by the browser to a server for a description of a page that includes a specification of the image and an associated client-side image map, the client-side image map specifying a shape, size, and location of the active region within the image and specifying actions to be performed in response to input events directed to the active region; receiving from the server in response to the request a description of the requested page that includes an invocation of a viewer for displaying the image, the invocation including parameters that describe the image and the client-side image map; instantiating the viewer and passing to the viewer the parameters included in the invocation; storing by the viewer representations of active regions within the image in image-relative coordinates along with indications of the actions to be performed in response to input events directed to the active region; and when an input event is detected by the browser during display of the page,