Method of transmitting images for online publication

• US 20040145679A1
• Filed: 10/29/2003
• Published: 07/29/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Digitomi Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Digitomi Company Limited
• Inventors: Kim, Dong-Hee
• Application Number:
  US10/475,527
• Publication Number:
  US 20040145679A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/398.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/325 Modified version of the image, e.g. part of the image, image reduced in size or resolution, thumbnail or screennail

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method transmitting images of an on-line publication wherein images with appropriate resolution are automatically selected and transmitted to the client according to a response of the client, thereby largely increasing the transmission speed without interfering the client'"'"'s reading of the publication.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting images for an online publication performed by a provider of the online publication in a state that the provider and a client having a stretching function and a multi tasking function are connected to each other through a communication network, the method comprising steps of:

a) preparing, for a same original copy, relatively low-resolution integrated images and relatively middle-resolution integrated images which are to be transmitted to the client and magnified by the stretching function;

b) transmitting the corresponding low-resolution integrated image when a transmission for a certain page of the original copy is requested;

c) determining if a request for a transmission of another page of the original copy is made until a certain time passes after the transmission of the low-resolution integrated image;

d) transmitting, if it is determined at the step (c) that a request for a transmission of another page is made before the certain time passes, the low-resolution integrated image for the page; and

e) transmitting, if it is determined at the step (c) that a request for a transmission of another page is not made until the certain time passes, the middle-resolution integrated image for the certain page.

2. The method of transmitting images for an online publication according to claim 1, further comprising a step of additionally transmitting the low-resolution integrated images for predetermined relevant pages to the certain page, after the step of transmitting the low-resolution integrated image.

3. The method of transmitting images for an online publication according to claim 1, further comprising a step of additionally transmitting the low-resolution integrated images for predetermined relevant pages to the certain page, after the step of transmitting the middle-resolution integrated image.

4. The method of transmitting images for an online publication according to claim 2 or claim 3, further comprising the steps of:

(f) preparing high-resolution divided images for the original copy at step (a) which are provided according to a request for a detail image from the client;

(g) determining if the request for a transmission of the detail image is made from the client; and

(h) transmitting the high-resolution divided image in case the request for the detail image is made from the client.

5. The method of transmitting images for an online publication according to claim 4, further comprising the steps of (i) encoding log-in information of the client;

and (j) inserting the encoded information into a part of the high-resolution divided image.

6. The method of transmitting images for an online publication according to claim 4, further comprising the steps of (g1) recognizing, in case of the request for the detail image from the client at the step (g), a part for which the request is made;

and (h1) of transmitting the high-resolution divided image at the step (h) in order of the part of which a position is recognized at the step (g1) and the adjacent high-resolution divided images according to their distance from the part.