System and method for pre-loading flyer image tiles and managing memory for same
First Claim
1. A method of managing physical memory of an interactive flyer system on a communication device, comprising:
- determining that the physical memory requires management;
ordering flyer image tiles stored in the memory in z-order; and
for each top z-order flyer image tile,determining portion of the flyer image tiles stored in the memory that is covered by the top z-order flyer image tile; and
removing from the physical memory the determined portion of the flyer image tiles to release the memory storing the determined portion of the flyer image tiles.
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Abstract
In the present disclosure, there is disclosed a communication device including a pre-loading module configured to retrieve a first and a second set of flyer image tiles from a flyer image tile set stored in memory, the first set of flyer image tiles being associated with the most zoomedout state and the second set of flyer image tiles being associated with a zoom level of a current viewport. The pre-loading module is further configured to associate the first set of flyer image tiles with an underlay viewport. The communication device further includes a display configured to display the first set of flyer image tiles in the underlay viewport that are visible in the current viewport and overlay the second set of flyer image tiles visible in the current viewport onto the first set of flyer image tiles.
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1. A method of managing physical memory of an interactive flyer system on a communication device, comprising:
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determining that the physical memory requires management; ordering flyer image tiles stored in the memory in z-order; and for each top z-order flyer image tile, determining portion of the flyer image tiles stored in the memory that is covered by the top z-order flyer image tile; and removing from the physical memory the determined portion of the flyer image tiles to release the memory storing the determined portion of the flyer image tiles. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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