Method and system of managing data files

A system for retrieving a plurality of viewports from a container on a storage device, the container containing a plurality of records, the system comprising:

• a server programmed with machine executable instructions to:
• receive a request from a user, the request including a plurality of single record requests, each single record request comprising parameters identifying a respective one of the viewports, a respective record including the respective one of the viewports, and the container, wherein each viewport comprises a contiguous set of pixels from a large format image and is wholly contained within the large format image, and wherein the parameters include a position and size of the viewport;
• validate each of the plurality of single record requests by validating the parameters of each single record request;
• and
• upon receiving and validating each request, dispatch the plurality of single record requests in parallel, the dispatching including for each of the single record requests:
• sending each request to a single record viewport request processing service, determining a preserving request order of the single record requests, and providing result for the preserving request order based on availability.