Patent ID: 7774358

Claim:
A multimedia data publication process comprising the steps of: saving a plurality of digital files on a server, each digital file having content therein; transmitting a file of the plurality of digital files to a host terminal, in response to a query emitted by navigation system software installed on the host terminal; choosing, by a user on the host terminal, settings including position, size, and orientation of a display window on a screen of the host terminal; computing a visual content on the host terminal by the navigation software according to the content in the transmitted file; and displaying the computed visual content only within the display window on the screen of the host terminal by navigation software, wherein a shape of the display window is determined by a shape of the computed visual content, wherein the content of the transmitted files comprises: a definition of resources associated with the transmitted digital file, wherein the definition is used for computing the visual content represented during display of computed visual content on the host terminal, the resources being defined independently of their dimension, positioning, orientation, processing, and graphical effects; a definition of the shape of the computed visual content by a combination of graphical shapes, the graphical shapes each being constructed from one or more of the resources; a description of the layout of the computed visual content by superimposition of graphical elements, where each of the graphical elements is constructed from one or more of the resources and where the description includes layout properties to be interpreted by the navigation software for computing the visual content, depending on the settings chosen by the user of the host terminal, wherein the layout properties include the level of opacity of each graphical element in the computed visual content and the shape of the computed visual content; interactive buttons; and elements for loading a new digital file of the plurality of digital files in response to user input, wherein the elements control a relation between the host terminal and the server on which the new digital file is saved.