Patent ID: 8036496

Claim:
A method of transferring a portion of at least one image or a portion of at least one additional layer, the method comprising: determining a position of a view pointer over an image on a display of a client system; sending a request from the client system over a communication network based on the determined position of the view pointer; receiving over the communication network a prescribed number of compressed data corresponding to a prescribed number of sub-cells based on the request; wherein the sub-cells are based on process of generating at least one additional layer of at least one image, each additional layer being one of magnification or reduction in image size of the at least one image, dividing the at least one image or the at least one additional layer into a plurality of sub-cells, each sub-cell comprising a portion of the at least one image or a portion of the at least one layer, and compressing each data associated with each of the plurality of sub-cells, and wherein the received prescribed number of sub-cells comprises a first sub-cell at the position of the view pointer over the image on the display and sub-cells around the first sub-cell.