Method of distributing documents having common components to a plurality of destinations
AssigneeSilverbrook Research Pty Ltd
InventorsPaul Lapstun, Kia Silverbrook
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Abstract
A method of distributing documents, via a communications network, to a plurality of receiving stations associated with a plurality of users. At least one document layout is pointcast to each receiving station, the document layout being associated with a predetermined user and defining one or more data objects such as text, images and graphics. Collections of shared data objects are then multicast, via the communications network, to the receiving stations on the basis of the respective users' document layouts. Each collection is only transmitted to those receiving stations whose users' document layouts include data objects in that collection.
Claims4
A method of distributing a plurality of documents, via a communications network, to a plurality of receiving stations, the method including the steps of:
- transmitting, via the communications network, at least one document layout to each of the plurality of receiving stations, the at least one document layout defining one of the plurality of documents and identifying at least one data object and at least one channel on which the at least one data object will be multicast;
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- multicasting on said at least one channel, via the communications network, the at least one data object, such that each of the plurality of receiving stations receives the at least one data object identified by the at least one document layout previously received by the receiving station.
A method according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the data objects include one or more of the following:
- text;
- graphics;
- and images.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.