Patent ID: 8204964

Claim:
A machine-implemented method for compressing visual information or auditory information included in a file, the machine-implemented method comprising: creating a plurality of compressed component portions from the visual information or the auditory information included in the file, each of the plurality of compressed component portions being based only on content of a respective portion of the visual information or the auditory information, compressing of each of the respective portions of the visual information or the auditory information being based only on visual or audio content of the respective portion, each of the respective compressed portions being different from any other of the compressed portions and being stored in respective component files; creating a network page including a reference to the file; replacing the reference to the file included in the network page with a plurality of references to ones of the component files; saving, to a storage device, the network page including the plurality of references to the ones of the component files; and sending contents of the component files to a remote processing device for rendering as an aggregate representation of the visual information or the auditory information included in the plurality of compressed portions, the sending being performed as a result of the remote processing device requesting and receiving the network page including the plurality of references to the ones of the component files, and requesting the ones of the component files.