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:
- providing, by a document server to a first communication device, first access information corresponding to a first plurality of pages of a document;
- sending, by the document server, the first access information to the first communication device;
- receiving, by the document server, a request from the first communication device for one of the first plurality of pages;
- 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 a network accessible storage location;
- and
- wherein the document is of a first document type, and the method further comprising receiving, by the document server from the first communication device, the document for processing into the 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.
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;
- provide, to the first communication device, first access information corresponding to a first plurality of pages of a document;
- send the first access information to the first communication device;
- receive a request from the first communication device for one of the first plurality of pages;
- receive an edit to one of the first plurality of pages from the first communication device, wherein the edit creates a modified page;
- store the modified page on a network accessible storage location;
- and
- wherein the document is of a first document type, and wherein the controller is further configured to receive, from the first communication device, the document for processing into the 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.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.