Patent ID: 8073858

Claim:
A method of providing to a user front end selected data items from a plurality of data items provided over a network by a data storage device, comprising: associating a front end driver that is at a first location operatively connected to the network with the user front end that is at a second location operatively connected to the network; opening one or more windows to display data on a display connected to the user front end; determining at the front end driver which data items of the plurality of data items are to be visible for display at a given time in the respective one or more open windows at the user front end, wherein determining comprises providing, from the user front end over the network to the front end driver, control information associated with the data items to be visible for display at the user front end; selecting for downloading to the front end driver from the data storage device the data items determined by the control information to be visible for display at the user front end; sending selected data items to the user front end over the network from the front end driver; and displaying the selected data items in the respective one or more open windows at the user front end.