File processing to accelerate image viewer initialization

• US 8,151,004 B1
• Filed: 07/13/2007
• Issued: 04/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Wolfram, Herbert, Ufimtsev, Oleksandr Volodymyrovych
• Primary Examiner(s): Winder, Patrice
• Assistant Examiner(s): Golabbakhsh, Ebrahim
• Application Number:
  US11/777,822
• Time in Patent Office: 1,726 Days
• Field of Search: 709/246, 709/218, 709/221, 709228-229
• US Class Current: 709/246
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching

Abstract

The present disclosure includes systems and methods relating to accelerating initialization of image viewers. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in a method that includes receiving a request to display an image, identifying a data component involved with displaying the image, modifying an existing electronic binary vector graphics file to include the data component, and transmitting the modified file.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a request to retrieve an existing electronic file for displaying an image on a client device, the existing electronic file conforming to a file format for presenting multimedia content using content player software on the client device;

analyzing at least one of the request or the existing electronic file to;

identify at least one data component necessary to display the image, the at least one identified data component providing data for use by the content player software, in combination with the existing electronic file, to generate the image, wherein the at least one identified data component includes at least one of skin data or image viewer configuration data;

modifying the electronic file to include the at least one identified data component; and

transmitting the modified electronic file to the client device in response to the request.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic file comprises a main file for displaying the image, the method further comprising:

identifying, based upon the request or upon contents of the electronic file, at least one component of the image viewer nonessential for displaying the image; and

modifying the electronic file to remove the at least one nonessential component.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, based upon the request or upon contents of the electronic file, layout information associated with displaying the image;

performing one or more computations to determine layout data based on the layout information; and

modifying the electronic file to include the layout data.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

marking the modified electronic file as cacheable; and

caching the modified electronic file on a Content Delivery Network (CDN).

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the extendible file format comprises a small web format (SWF) file format.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the electronic file includes a loader for loading a main file for displaying the image, and the at least one identified data component includes one or more components unique to the image.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the at least one identified data component includes at least one of image data or image configuration data.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the electronic file includes a main file for displaying the image, and

the at least one identified data component comprises one or more components for use with a plurality of images.

6. A system comprising:

a portal device configured to enable communication between one or more clients and one or more computers through a data communication network; and

one or more computers operable to communicate through the portal device and to;

receive a request through the portal device for displaying an image on a client device,

identify an existing electronic file associated with the request, the electronic file associated with an image viewer conforming to a file format for presenting multimedia content using content player software on the client device,

analyze at least one of the request or the existing electronic file to identify at least one data component necessary to display the image, the at least one identified data component providing data for use by the image viewer, in combination with the existing electronic file, to generate the image, wherein the at least one identified data component includes at least one of skin data or image viewer configuration data,

modify the electronic file to include the at least one identified data component, and

transmit the modified electronic file through the portal device to the client device in response to the request.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the one or more computers comprise one or more servers, and wherein:

a dispatcher server is configured to receive the request and to dispatch the request to one or more processing servers, and

a processing server is configured to analyze at least one of the request or the existing electronic file, modify the electronic file, and transmit the electronic file in response to the request to either the dispatcher server or the client device.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the extendible file format comprises a small web format (SWF) file format.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein:

the electronic file includes an image viewer for displaying the image,

the processing server includes a viewer processor server configured to modify the image viewer, and

the at least one identified data component includes one or more components for use with a plurality of images.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the viewer processor server is further operable to:

identify, based upon the request or upon the contents of the electronic file, at least one component of the image viewer nonessential for displaying the image; and

modify the electronic file to remove the at least one nonessential component.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the viewer processor server is further operable to:

determine, based upon the request or upon contents of the electronic file, layout information associated with displaying the image; and

perform one or more computations to determine layout data based on the layout information; and

modify the electronic file to include the layout data.

15. The system of claim 7, wherein:

the electronic file includes a loader for loading a main file for displaying the image,

the processing server includes a loader processor server configured to modify the loader, and

the at least one identified data component includes one or more components unique to the image.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the at least one identified data component includes at least one of image data or image configuration data.

17. The system of claim 6, further comprising a cache accessible by the one or more computers, wherein the one or more computers are further operable to:

mark the modified electronic file as cacheable, and

store the modified electronic file in the cache.