Patent ID: 7206804
Filing Date: 2007-04-17
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for transmitting a recipient-selected customization of a digital image from a sending device to a remote receiving device, said method comprising the acts of: a) storing a digital image on a sending device, wherein said digital image is in JPEG-2000 format; b) creating an index file corresponding to said digital image, wherein said index file associates, for at least one customization characteristic, segments of said-digital image required to construct an image exhibiting said at least one customization characteristic, wherein said segments are determined from a main header of said digital image, and at least one of a tile-part header and a packet header of said digital image; c) transmitting said index file to a remote receiving device, wherein said index file enables recipient selection of a customization of said digital image; d) receiving said index file at said remote receiving device; e) identifying a recipient-selected customization of said digital image at said remote receiving device; f) determining selected segments of said digital image corresponding to said recipient-selected customization of said digital image through associations in said index file; g) transmitting an HTTP request for said selected segments of said digital image from said remote receiving device to said sending device; h) receiving said HTTP request for said selected segments of said digital image from said remote receiving device; i) transmitting said selected segments of said digital image from said sending device to said remote receiving device, thereby allowing rendering of said recipient-selected customization of said digital image on said remote receiving device without transmission of the entirety of said digital image; and j) receiving said selected segments of said digital image associated with said recipient-selected customization of said digital image from said sending device at said remote receiving device.