Patent ID: 7792862

Claim:
A method of serving information to a distributed hypermedia browser executing on a client workstation, the method comprising: receiving a request from the browser at an Internet server, using an I/O interface of the Internet server, to locate information; transmitting a message from the Internet server to a database server, using the I/O interface of the Internet server, in response to receiving the request to locate information; searching a database on the database server, using a CPU on the database server for descriptive information for at least one feature in a multi-dimensional image having more than two dimensions and having a plurality of features; determining location information, using the CPU on the database server, that indicates the location of the feature; receiving a response comprising the location information at the Internet server, using the I/O interface at the Internet server, from the database server; and transmitting at least a portion of the response from the database server, using an I/O interface at the database server, to the browser.