Patent ID: 7039723

Claim:
A system for remote manipulation of image data over a telecommunications network, the system comprising: an image data storage library; an image processing server coupled to the telecommunications network and further coupled to the image data storage library; and a plurality of receiving stations coupled to the telecommunications network, each of the plurality of receiving stations having a memory for storing local copies of state parameters that keep track of the effect of image processing, the plurality of receiving stations including a first receiving station and a second receiving station, wherein the first receiving station transmits state parameters through the telecommunications network to the image processing server, and wherein the image processing server receives image data from the image data storage library and processes the image data in accordance with the received state parameters, and wherein the image processing server transmits processed image data through the telecommunications network to the first and second receiving stations and transmits the state parameters to the second receiving station to synchronize image display by the second receiving station to be consistent with image display by the first receiving station.