Network distributed display pages with images and symbols selected from a universal library
First Claim
1. In a computer managed communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive display stations and with a system for displaying documents transmitted to said display stations from locations remote from said stations, said documents including a sequence of at least one display screen page including images, the improvement comprising:
- means for transmitting to a receiving one of said display stations, a page comprising at least one identifier representative of a universal image,a library of universal images and identifiers respectively representative of each of said images at a location remote from said receiving display station,a network library server for fetching said library and for transmitting said library to said receiving display station, andmeans associated with said receiving display station for retrieving from said library the image represented by said one identifier, whereby said retrieved image is included in said page.
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Abstract
A data processor controlled user interactive display system for displaying hypertext documents, each including a sequence of display screen pages received over a communications network such as the World Wide Web. In order to reduce downloading time, Web pages are transmitted as HTML files in which images are represented by identifiers. The images corresponding to the identifiers may be fetched from libraries of universal images. The invention is implemented by the display stations which receive the Web pages. These stations, through associated browsers, retrieve the universal image libraries via the internet and download such libraries once and store them locally on caches associated with the browsers.
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15 Claims
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1. In a computer managed communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive display stations and with a system for displaying documents transmitted to said display stations from locations remote from said stations, said documents including a sequence of at least one display screen page including images, the improvement comprising:
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means for transmitting to a receiving one of said display stations, a page comprising at least one identifier representative of a universal image, a library of universal images and identifiers respectively representative of each of said images at a location remote from said receiving display station, a network library server for fetching said library and for transmitting said library to said receiving display station, and means associated with said receiving display station for retrieving from said library the image represented by said one identifier, whereby said retrieved image is included in said page. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. In a computer managed communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive display stations and with a system for displaying documents transmitted to said display stations from locations remote from said stations, said documents including a sequence of at least one display page containing text and images, a method for facilitating the creation and transmission of said images comprising:
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transmitting to a receiving one of said display stations, a page comprising at least one identifier representative of a universal image, providing a library of universal images and identifiers respectively representative of each of said images at a location remote from said receiving display station, fetching said library and transmitting said library to said receiving display station, and retrieving at said receiving display station the image represented by said one identifier from said library, whereby said retrieved image is included in said received page. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. In a computer program having data structures included on a computer readable medium for browsing a computer managed communication network via a data processor controlled user interactive receiving display station in order to display on said receiving display station, documents transmitted to said station from network locations remote from said receiving station, each document including a sequence of at least one display screen page containing text and images, the improvement comprising:
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means for receiving at said receiving display station, a page comprising at least one identifier representative of a universal image, means for fetching and transmitting to said receiving station from a remote location on said network, a library of universal images and identifiers respectively representative of each of said images, and means for retrieving from said library the image represented by said one identifier, whereby said retrieved image is included in said page. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15)
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