Patent ID: 6931661

Claim:
A method of transmitting an image from a remote server to a portable device and dynamically viewing, by a human observer, the transmitted image on a display of the portable device, comprising: a) processing, on the remote server, a master set of data representative of a graphic image to form a first subset of data representative of a portion of the graphic image; b) transmitting the first subset of data to the portable device; c) rendering, on the display of the portable device, a first image created from the transmitted first subset of data; d) selecting, by the observer, a portion of said rendered first image, to be further expanded; e) sending a request indicative of said selected portion, from the portable device to the remote server; f) on the remote server, fulfilling said request and processing said master set of data to form a second subset of data representative of said selected portion of said first image; g) transmitting the second subset of data to the portable device; and h) rendering, on the display of the portable device, a second image created from the transmitted second subset of data.