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AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsMichael Man-Hak Tso, Jin Jing, Robert Conrad Knauerhase, David Alfred Romrell, Daniel Joshua Gillespie, Bikram Singh Bakshi, Seshardi Sathyanarayan
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A system for enhancing data access over a communications link is disclosed. In accordance with a particular embodiment, a system for retrieving an object over a computer network includes a network client with a browser for rendering an object to a user and a user interface enabling the user to establish an encoding preference. A remote scaling server is coupled between the network client and the computer network, and includes a remote proxy and an encode service provider. The remote scaling server is configured to request a user-specified encoding preference from the network client, retrieve an object from the computer network using the remote proxy, encode the object using the encode service provider in accordance with the requested user-specified encoding preference, and transmit the encoded object to the network client using the remote proxy. The disclosed system thus enables users to dynamically influence the trade-off between quality of content and download speed.
A system for retrieving an object over a computer network, said system comprising a network client and a remote scaling server coupled between the network client and the computer network, wherein:
An apparatus for transferring an object to a client over a communications link, said apparatus comprising a server configured to receive an object request from the client, download a graphical user interface to the client in response to receiving the object request, retrieve an object from a data store coupled to the server, obtain a user-entered encoding preference from the client through the downloaded graphical user interface, selectively encode the object based on one or more predetermined selection criteria in accordance with the received user-entered encoding preference, and transmit the encoded object to the client, wherein the graphical user interface comprises a set of automatically executing instructions for requesting an encoding preference from a user of the client, receiving a response from the user, and transmitting the response back to the server.
A method for providing a client with an object to be rendered to a user, said method being implemented on a server coupled to the client by a communications link, the server being capable of accessing objects in a data store, said method comprising the steps of:
A set of instructions resident on a storage medium for execution by a server, said set of instructions enabling the server to provide a client coupled thereto with an encoded version of an object for display to a user, said set of instructions comprising instructions for:
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