Patent ID: 7617135

Claim:
A method comprising: displaying, on a terminal that is connected to a remote information server, a simulated three-dimensional representation of a good to be sold, wherein said simulated three-dimensional representation includes a plurality of different discrete representations representing a plurality of different views of the good; controlling a direction of viewing the good from multiple different directions, at least one of said directions including readable information, and wherein said displaying operates with sufficient resolution to enable reading the information from the good; said controlling using direction of view controls on said terminal, that control a direction of viewing the good from multiple different directions; said displaying comprising, at a first time, using said direction of view controls to load a first set N of discrete representations from a remote server and to display said first set N of discrete representations as said simulated three dimensional representation; and at a second time, using said direction of view controls to load a second set M of discrete representations from a remote server and to display said second set M of discrete representations as said simulated three dimensional representation, where a number of said discrete representations in said first set N is greater than a number of said discrete representations M in said second set, and wherein at said second time, not all of said discrete representations in said first set N are capable of being displayed on said terminal.