Patent ID: 7975221

Claim:
A method for viewing, on a client-side device having a display, documents requested from a server-side device, the client-side device and server-side device having a communication link therebetween, comprising: (a) generating a request from the client-side device to be sent to the server-side device, the request identifying a document; (b) the server-side device retrieving, in response to receiving the request from the client-side device, the requested document; (c) the server-side device compressing, using a compression format compatible with the client-side device, the retrieved document into a compressed image; (d) the server-side device communicating a decompressed image to the client side device when a size of the compressed image is greater than a size of an image rendered on the display; and (e) the client-side device displaying the decompressed image.