US 2014/0280403 A1 · SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEVICE-OPTIMIZED TRANSMISSION, RENDERING, EDITING AND STORING OF FILES

Abstract

The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method and system for device optimized rendering and storage of files to mobile devices. Only the individual parts of a file being accessed by the user are transmitted to the mobile device requiring significantly less bandwidth and time in contrast to downloading a complete file. The file is deconstructed into parts and a data structure is created that associates the individual parts of the file. At least one part of the file is transmitted to the requesting client in a “view only” format. A separate, “editable” format of the same part of the file is transmitted to the client in response to a request to edit the file. When the “editable” part of the file is saved, the updated file part is transmitted to the server and is merged with the master file while retaining the original formatting and the process begins again. A separate “placeholder” format of the same file part is transmitted to the client to represent all file parts that have not been requested on the client and the file parts that has been transmitted to the client.

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Dependent claims

A computer system for device optimized rendering of files on a mobile device comprising:

a. a processor;
b. a memory coupled to the processor;
c. a mobile device;
d. wherein the memory stores a computer program that, when executed by the processor causes the processor to:
i. input a master file from data storage into computer memory, said master file corresponds to a file request on the mobile device by a mobile device user wherein the file request is transferred from the mobile device through a communication network to a session manager computer application on a file server computer located remotely from the mobile device;
ii. execute a file converter and merger function that segments the master file into optimized file parts having a device agnostic data format that optimizes the rendering of the file on the mobile device;
iii. determine the optimized file part that corresponds to the file section requested by the mobile device user;
iv. cause the optimized file part to be sent to the mobile device;
and
v. repeat the processing in (i) through (iv) in response to the mobile device user requests to open another file part of the master file at the mobile device.

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System and method for device-optimized transmission, rendering, editing and storing of files

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System and method for device-optimized transmission, rendering, editing and storing of files

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