Patent ID: 8527654

Claim:
A system for providing a low-latency transfer protocol, the system comprising: a server in communication with one or more clients over a digital computer network; and an application program instantiated on the server, the application program providing a computer-generated output; wherein the server is configured to implement the low-latency transfer protocol including being configured to: intercept the computer-generated output from the application program; identify a plurality of regions within the computer-generated output from the application program; for each specific region of the plurality of regions, determine and select a specific format for data conversion, wherein each of the plurality of regions has at least a characteristic affecting quality retention of the data conversion; for each specific region, convert the corresponding computer-generated output from the application program into the corresponding specific format, thereby generating a converted output with the plurality of regions having one or more different formats; and transmit the converted output over the digital computer network to the one or more clients.