Patent ID: 7109985

Claim:
A dynamic imaging server comprising: a parser that receives an image request from a remote location over a communication network and interprets the image request into a set of individual operation commands defined as a job, wherein the job represents a sequential collection of the individual operation commands parsed by the parser from data contained in the image request; a job processor that receives the job from the parser and sequentially executes the individual commands contained in the job to perform a plurality of image related operations; at least one image processing engine that performs an image related operation in response to a command received by the job processor to generate processed image data; and a formatter that receives the processed image data and formats the processed image data into a desired image format to produce a result image that is transferred to the remote location over the communication network in satisfaction of the image request; wherein the dynamic imaging server is connectable to a local storage device that is coupled to a synchronization engine, wherein the synchronization engine synchronizes transfer of files from remote sources over the communication network to the local storage device.