US 10,380,970 B2 · Client-server visualization system with hybrid data processing

Abstract

The invention comprises a system of client-server visualization with hybrid data processing, having a server digital data processor, that allows for server side rendering and processing image data, and client digital data processors simultaneously connected to the server, which receives messages from the clients, creates rendered images of data sets or other data processing results and sends those rendered images and results to the clients for display or further processing. Performing certain image rendering operations on either the server or the client according to which is better suited for the tasks requested by the user at any point in time, and possibly adjusting this division of work dynamically, improves rendering speed and application responsiveness on the clients.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A file server method comprising:

(a) monitoring for requests from a client computer, where the client computer comprises one or more local processing resources and a display device;
(b) receiving one or more requests from the client computer for rendering aspects of one or more images, at least one image of the one or more images including at least a first aspect and a second aspect;
(c) responding to the one or more requests by making a file server buffer available for processing by the client computer;
(d) rendering using a render module the first aspect of the at least one image in response to the one or more requests;
(e) storing the first aspect in the file server buffer;
(f) receiving the second aspect of the at least one image from the client computer, where the second aspect was rendered using the one or more local processing resources;
and
(g) storing the second aspect in the file server buffer.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/036,451Filed 16 Jul 2018 · continuation

Priority

23 Nov 2007

Published

US 2018/0322846 A18 Nov 2018

Granted

13 Aug 2019

Term ends

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Classification11 codes

G09G 5/006
Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto: details of…
G06T 15/00
Three-dimensional [3d] image rendering
G06T 15/005
Three-dimensional [3D] image rendering: general purpose rendering architectures
G09G 5/363
Characterised by the display of a graphic pattern, e.g. using an all-points-addressable [APA] memory: graphics controllers

Family

Application60/989,881Us provisional application · filed 23 Nov 2007

Application60/989,913Us provisional application · filed 23 Nov 2007

Application12/275,834Parent of this continuation · filed 21 Nov 2008

Application14/641,243Parent of this continuation · filed 6 Mar 2015

Application15/450,888Parent of this continuation · filed 6 Mar 2017

US 2018/0322846 A1Pre-grant publication · published 8 Nov 2018

US 10,043,482 B2Parent of this continuation

US 9,595,242 B1Parent of this continuation

US 9,019,287 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2009/0210487 A1Published application

US 2017/0178593 A1Published application

US 10,380,970 B2This patent

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Client-server visualization system with hybrid data processing

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Client-server visualization system with hybrid data processing

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Abstract

Claims20