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US 10,097,638 B2Granted
System and method for sharing unsupported document types between communication devices
AssigneeDamaka, Inc.
InventorsSivakumar Chaturvedi, Satish Gundabathula
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Abstract
An improved system and method are disclosed for sharing a document between two communication devices that do not have an application that can display the document. In one example, the document is sent by the communication device that is sharing the document to a document server for processing into pages of one or more different document types, and both communication devices retrieve the stored pages as needed for display. The sharing communication device updates the other communication device when a new page is to be retrieved from the document server.
Claims17
A method for sharing a document comprising:
- establishing a communication session between a document server and a first communication device;
- receiving, by a document server from the first communication device, a document of a first document type for processing into a first plurality of pages based on at least one parameter, wherein each of the first plurality of pages is a second document type that is different from the first document type;
- providing, by the document server to the first communication device, first access information corresponding to the first plurality of pages, wherein the first access information identifies a location of at least one of the first plurality of pages on a network accessible storage location;
- sending, by the document server, the first access information to the first communication device;
- receiving, by the document server, a request from a first communication device for one of the first plurality of pages, wherein the request includes the first access information, and wherein the first communication device does not have access to an application required to display the first document type but has access to an application required to display the second document type;
- receiving, by the document server, an edit to one of the first plurality of pages from the first communication device, wherein the edit creates a modified page;
- and
- storing the modified page on the network accessible storage location.
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A document server comprising:
- a network interface configured to send and receive communications via at least one of a wireless and a wireline network;
- a memory;
- a controller coupled to the network interface and the memory, wherein the controller is configured to:
- establish a communication session between the document server and a first communication device;
- receive, from the first communication device, a document of a first document type for processing into a first plurality of pages based on at least one parameter, wherein each of the first plurality of pages is a second document type that is different from the first document type;
- provide to the first communication device first access information corresponding to the first plurality of pages, wherein the first access information identifies a location of at least one of the first plurality of pages on a network accessible storage location;
- send the first access information to the first communication device;
- receive a request from a first communication device for one of the first plurality of pages, wherein the request includes the first access information, and wherein the first communication device does not have access to an application required to display the first document type but has access to an application required to display the second document type;
- receive an edit to one of the first plurality of pages from the first communication device, wherein the edit creates a modified page;
- and
- store the modified page on the network accessible storage location.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.