US 2006/0225001 A1Published application

Method for requesting and viewing a preview of a table attachment on a mobile communication device

AssigneeArizan Corporation

InventorsOlav Sylthe, Jianwei(Oliver) Yuan, Dan Dumitru

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Abstract

A process is set forth for previewing a table attachment on a mobile communication device, and upon identifying table content of interest viewing and/or retrieving the entire table from an attachment server. In one embodiment, a small 4×4 row/column preview is presented on the device of every table found in a document attachment, with the cell content textual information limited to the requesting device display capabilities. This limitation avoids any requirement to download large amounts of individual cell content to the device. Thus, the user is able to quickly identify which tables are of interest and then request a full table download from the attachment server in an on-demand fashion. In this regard, the preview table itself preferably also functions as a link to the full table stored at the server to facilitate easy retrieval to the device for viewing in a spreadsheet view.

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Dependent claims

A process for previewing on a mobile communication device at least one table embedded in an document stored in a server, comprising:

building a graph structure within said server representing a map of said document, including a table component representing each said table;
issuing a request for said document from said mobile communication device to said server including an indication of display capabilities for said device;
iterating said graph structure within said server and for each said table component constructing and adding a preview table component as an attribute to an external component reference command, wherein said preview table component includes a predetermined number of rows and columns of said table with cell content textual information limited to said display capabilities;
downloading and displaying said document from said server to said mobile communication device including said preview table component;
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wherein said iterating further comprises iterating said preview table component and for each iterated table row command, table cell command and text segment command within said predetermined number of rows and columns and limited cell content textual information, creating a new table row command, new table cell command, and new text segment command respectively with attributes copied from each said iterated table row command table, cell command and text segment command and adding said new table row command, new table cell command, and new text segment command to said preview table component in said graph structure.

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