Imaging system providing dynamic viewport layering

• US 20070009179A1
• Filed: 05/23/2006
• Published: 01/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Syniverse ICX LLC
• Original Assignee: LightSurf Technologies, Inc. (VeriSign, Inc.)
• Inventors: Easwar, Venkat
• Granted Patent: US 7,792,876 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/276
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface

Abstract

A system including methodology for optimizing/customizing display or rendering of requested images is described. In one embodiment, the system provides on-demand creation of images that are customized for a particular device type. The system comprises a module serving as a repository for images, each image comprising image components arranged into distinct layers; a module for processing a request from a device for retrieving a particular image from the repository, the module determining a particular device type for the device based in part on information contained in the request; and a module for creating a copy of the particular image that is customized for the device, the module individually rendering image components in the distinct layers of the particular image based on the determined device type, such that at least some of the image components in the distinct layers of the particular image are customized for the device.

Claims

1-50. -50. (canceled)

51. A computer-implemented method comprising:

organizing each image into different layers, with each layer having image components of a certain type;

determining an optimization for display on a particular device on a per-layer basis;

based on a type of device requesting the image, rendering each layer of the image based on the optimization determined for the type of device to dynamically generate a rendered image that is optimized for display at the device.