Patent ID: 7362323

Claim:
Software embodied in one or more computer readable-media when executed operable to: display, within a Web page on a client computer coupled to a network environment, a plurality of two-dimensional image maps being representations of an original multi-dimensional image having more than two dimensions, with locations in the two-dimensional image maps specified by values of first and second coordinates which specify locations in said representations of the original multi-dimensional image; select a particular location on one of said two-dimensional image maps having particular values of the first and second coordinates, where selecting the particular location on the two-dimensional image map determines a multi-dimensional coordinate, including at least three coordinate values, which, indicates a specific location in the original multi-dimensional image; initiate access to a correlated location in a secondary map, where the secondary map is a data structure which holds a plurality of multi-bit object indices at locations in the secondary map, with the correlated location homologous to said specific location, to retrieve a specific object index for said specific location after said particular location of the two-dimensional image map displayed on the client computer is selected; and cause a server computer coupled to the network environment to utilize said specific object index for said specific location to access a program action associated with said specific location.