Patent ID: 8775545

Claim:
A method for image hosting for cross-platform display, the method comprising: receiving data sent over a communication network from a remote host device, the received data including information regarding a display of the host device to be processed prior to rendering by an identified remote client device having one or more identified browsers, wherein the display of the host device includes a plurality of types of data, wherein at least one type is image data; executing instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of instructions by a processor: identifies one or more images included in the image data from the plurality of data types in the display of the host device, provides each of the identified one or more images in the received image data to memory for storage, wherein each image is encoded in a manner compatible with an identified browser of the identified client device prior to storage, automatically assigns a uniform resource locator (URL) to each image encoded for the identified browser of the identified client device, each URL identifying a location where the associated image is stored for access by the identified browser of the identified client device, and generates a bitstream regarding the display of the host device, wherein the bitstream refers to the one or more URLs associated with the stored images that have been encoded for the identified browser of the identified client device; and providing the bitstream to the identified client device, wherein rendering the bitstream comprises using the identified browser of the client device to retrieve the images associated with the URLs and stored in memory.