EP0967556A2
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Flat image delivery server
Assignee: HP Inc
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Filing: 1999-02-10
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2019-02-10
Abstract
Abstract The inventive flat image delivery (FID) server (11) manages image conversion, paricularly the fetching of the image tiles and the stitching of the image tiles into the JPEG images. The FID server is part from the web server (12), and thus reduces the processing load of the web server. The image conversion of the FID is invoked by a static URL request which allows the resulting JPEG image to be cached by proxy servers (14). The FID server operates in between a web server and a proxy server. The conversion command includes an image filename, a resolution size requirement, and the image region of interest. The inventive FID server can be configured to operate with any imaging protocol or tile based server.
Inventors
- 👤 Masayoshi Habu
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
EP
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 11:30
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06F; G06F16/00; G06F16/90; G06F16/95; G06F16/957; G06F16/9577
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 10
Claim 1
Independent Claim
78 words
An image server (11) for managing image requests from at
least one client (15), wherein the images are stored in
a storage server (12), the image server comprising: means for receiving (17) an image request from the one
client; means for retrieving (16) the image from the storage
server; means for reformatting the image into an output image
with a format useable by the one client; and means for sending (17) the output image to the one
client.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
14 words
The image server of claim 1, wherein: the request is a static URL request.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
34 words
The image server of claim 2, wherein: the static URL request includes an image file name of
the image, information indicating a desired portion of
the image, and information indicating a desired image
size.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
29 words
The image server of claim 2, wherein: the output image is cacheable by a proxy server (14)
which resides between the image server (11) and the one
client (15).
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
60 words
The image server of claim 1, wherein the means for
retrieving the image comprises: means for disassembling the request into an image
address and at least one desired attribute; means for retrieving information about the image from
the storage server (12) based upon the address; and means for requesting the image from the storage server
based upon the retrieved information.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
78 words
The image server of claim 5, wherein the one desired
attribute includes a portion of the image, and the image
is stored in the storage server (12) in a tile based
format, the means for retrieving the image further
comprises: means for determining which tiles form the portion of
the image; wherein the means for requesting the image only requests
the determined tiles, and the means for retrieving the
image only retrieves the determined tiles for the image.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
24 words
The image server of claim 6, wherein the means for
reformatting comprises: means for stitching the determined tiles together to
form the output image.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
22 words
The image server of claim 7, further comprising: means for compressing the output image prior to
operation of the means for sending.
Claim 9
Independent Claim
76 words
A method for managing image requests from at least one
client (15), via an image server (11), wherein the
images are stored in a storage server (12), the method
comprising the steps of: receiving an image request from the one client; retrieving the image from the storage server; reformatting the image into an output image with a
format useable by the one client, via the image server;
and sending the output image to the one client.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
41 words
The method of claim 9, wherein the request is a static
URL request, the method further comprising the step of: caching the output image in a proxy server (14) which
resides between the image server (11) and the one client
(15).
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