Patent ID: 7797455

Claim:
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; (c) the server-side device rasterizing the requested document; (d) the server-side device selecting a section of the rasterized requested document that corresponds to the identified section of the requested document, the section of the rasterized requested document being less than all of the rasterized requested document; (e) the server-side device compressing, using a compression format compatible with the client-side device, only the selected section of the rasterized document into a compressed image; (f) the server-side device communicating the compressed image to the client-side device; (g) the client-side device decompressing the received compressed image; and (h) the client-side device displaying the decompressed image.