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`Automated Media Delivery System
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`BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
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`TECHNICAL FIELD
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`The invention relates to software systems. More particularly, the invention relates to an
`Internet server-based software system that provides delivery of automated graphics
`and other media to Web sites for access by an end user or consumer.
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`DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART
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`Most Web sites today are primarily handmade. From the guy publishing a simple
`online technology newsletter from his home, to the Fortune 1000 company's multi-tiered
`site with hundreds of pages of text, images, and animations, the Web developer and
`each of his HTML-coding and graphics-producing coworkers toil page by page and
`image by image. Thousands of established online companies employ hundreds of
`highly-skilled workers just to produce and maintain their Web sites. After all, the Web is
`now a major selling vehicle and marketing medium for many of these companies. The
`~~20 Web has even sprouted service industries such as, for example, public companies with
`multi-billion dollar valuations created just to consult and produce Web sites for others.
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`Most Web developers who use established WYSIWYG tools in the industry still must
`produce each page on their Web site one by one. The same rate applies to preparing
`and placing images, animations, and other visual assets. Each page represents its own
`set of issues ranging from whether to use GIF, JPEG, or PNG file formats, to finding the
`optimum bit depth for each image to ensure the fastest downloading through the
`different browsers of the consumer. The bottlenecked state of the customer's workflow
`to produce graphics for Web pages can be described as follows:
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`Current Workflow for Creating Web Graphics
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`• Original Artwork/Asset Creation
`Use third-party point products
`• Asset Editing
`- Scale/reduce/slice
`• Asset Format Conversion
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`JPEG/GIF/PNG
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`Place in Web file system
`Edit HTML
`• Create/Modify HTML for particular page
`• Store HTML on Web server
`• View final pages
`• Repeat process for each version of each graphic on each page
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`Estimated time
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`Also, from a user's perspective, the current state of the art is to offer the consumer
`zooming and panning capabilities so that by clicking on an image the consumer can view
`t?:1 5 more closely or from a different angle. On the horizon are pages with three-dimensional
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`imagery that enable a user to move around a page that can look more like a room than a
`brochure. While interesting, these features are merely incremental improvements to a
`consumer's surfing experience.
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`to Support
`the Web
`D. C. A. Bulterman, Models, Media, and Motion: Using
`Multimedia Documents, Proceedings of 1997 International Conference on Multimedia
`Modeling, Singapore, 17-20 Nov. 1997 discloses "an effort underway by members of
`industry, research centers and user groups to define a standard document format that can
`be used in conjunction with time-based transport protocols over the Internet and
`intranets to support rich multimedia presentations. The paper outlines the goals of the
`W3C's Synchronized Multimedia working group and presents an initial description of the
`first version of the proposed multimedia document model and format."
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`Text and Graphics on UMl's ProQuest Direct: The Best (yet) of both Worlds, Online,
`vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 73-7, March- April 1997 discloses an information system that offers
`"periodical and newspaper content covering a wide range of business, news, and
`professional topics ... letting the user search both text and graphics and build the product
`to suit. Articles can be retrieved in varying levels of detail: citation, abstracts, full text, and
`text with graphics. Images come in two flavors: Page Image, a virtual photocopy, and
`the text and are
`from
`in which graphics are stored separately
`Text+Graphics,
`manipulable as discrete items .... [The system] comes in two versions: Windows and
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`John Mills Dudley, Network-Based Classified Information Systems, AU-A-53031/98
`(27/08/98) discloses a "system for automatically creating databases containing industry,
`service, product and subject classification data, contact data, geographic location data
`(CCG-data) and links to web pages from HTML, XML, or SGML encoded web pages
`posted on computer networks such as lnternets or lntranets .... The ... databases may be
`searched for references (URLs) to web pag!3S by use of enquiries which reference one
`or more of the items of the CCG-data. Alternatively, enquiries referencing the CC G(cid:173)
`data in the databases may supply contact data without web page references. Data
`duplication and coordination is reduced by including in the web page CCG-data display
`controls which are used by web browsers to format for display the same data that is
`used to automatically update the databases."
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`Cordell et al, Automatic Data Display Formatting with A Networking Application, U.S.
`Patent No. 5,845,084 (Dec. 1, 1998) discloses a placeholder image mechanism.
`"When a data request is made, the data transfer rate is monitored. When the receive
`data transfer rate is slow, and the data contains an embedded graphical image of
`unknown dimensions, a small placeholder image is automatically displayed for the user
`instead of the actual data. The small placeholder image holds a place on a display
`device for the data or the embedded graphical image until the data or embedded
`graphical image is received. When embedded graphical image is received, the
`placeholder image is removed, and the display device is reformatted to display the
`embedded graphical image."
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`Jonathon R. T. Lewis, System For Substituting Tags For Non-Editable Data Sets In
`Hypertext Documents And Updating Web Files Containing Unks Between Data Sets
`Corresponding To Changes Made To The Tags, U.S. Patent No. 5,355,472 (Oct. 11,
`1994) discloses a "hypertext data processing system wherein data sets participating i1
`the hypertext document may be edited, the data processing system inserting tags into
`the data sets at locations corresponding to the hypertext links to create a file which is
`editable by an editor and the data processing system removing the tags, generating a
`Its main
`revised data set and updating the link information after the editing process.
`purpose is to preserve the linking hierarchy that may get lost when the individual data
`sets get modified."
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`35 Wistendahl et al, System for Mapping Hot Spots in Media Content Interactive Digital
`Media Program, U.S. Patent No. 5,708,845 (Jan. 13, 1998) discloses a "system for
`allowing media content to be used in an interactive digital media (IDM) program [that]
`has Frame Data for the media content and object mapping data (N Data) representing
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`the frame addresses and display location coordinates for objects appearing in the media
`content. The N Data are maintained separately from the Frame Data for the media
`content, so that the media content can be kept intact without embedded codes and can
`be played back on any system. The IDM program has established linkages connecting
`the objects mapped by the N Data to other functions to be performed in conjunction
`with display of the media content. Selection of an object appearing in the media content
`with a pointer results in initiation of the interactive function. A broad base of existing non(cid:173)
`television
`interactive media content, such as movies, videos, advertising, and
`programming can be converted to interactive digital media use. An authoring system for
`creating IDM programs has an object outlining tool and an object motion tracking tool for
`In a data storage disk, the Frame Data and the N
`facilitating the generation of N Data.
`Data are stored on separate sectors. In a network system, the object mapping data and
`IDM program are downloaded to a subscriber tenninal and used in conjunction with
`presentation of the media content."
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`Rogers et al, Method for Fulfilling Requests of A Web Browser, U.S. Patent No.
`5,701,451 (Dec. 23, 1997) and Lagarde et al, Method for Distributed Task Fulfillment of
`Web Browser Requests, U.S. Patent No. 5,710,918 (Jan. 20, 1998) disclose
`essentially "improvements which achieve a means for accepting Web client requests for
`infonnation, obtaining data from one or more databases which may be located on
`multiple platforms at different physical locations on an Internet or on the Internet,
`processing that data into meaningful infonnation, and presenting that infonnation to the
`Web client in a text or graphics display at a location specified by the request."
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`Tyan et al, HTML Generator, European Patent Application No. EP 0843276 (May 20,
`1998) discloses "generating an HTML file based on an input bitmap image, and is
`particular1y directed to automatic generation of an HTML file, based on a scanned-in
`document image, with the HTML file in tum being used to generate a Web page that
`accurately reproduces the layout of the original input bitmap image."
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`TrueSpectra has a patent pending for the technology employed in its two products,
`lrisAccelerate and lrisTransactive. These products are designed for zooming and
`They
`panning and simple image transformations and conversions, respectively.
`support 10 file formats and allow developers to add new file formats via their SOK.
`They do not require the use of Flashpix for images. However, their documentation
`points out that performance is dependent on the Flashpix format. The system would
`be very slow if a non-Flashpix format was used.
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`TrueSpectra allows the image quality and compression to be set for JPEGs only. The
`compression setting is set on the server and all images are delivered at the same
`setting.
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`Images in the cache can be cleared out
`TrueSpectra has a simple caching mechanism.
`automatically at certain times and it does not have any dependency features for image
`propagation. The Web server needs to be brought down in order to update any
`original assets.
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`TrueSpectra does not require plug-ins to operate features such as zooming/panning or
`compositing. The alternative to plug-ins is using their Javascript or active server page
`technology. These technologies are used by many Web sites to provide interactivity,
`but not all Web browsers work correctly with these technologies.
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`TrueSpectra relies on Flashpix as its native file format and does not support media
`types such as multi-GIFs and sound formats. Flashpix files are typically larger than most
`file formats. Access to files is faster for zooming and panning, but appears to be quite
`slow.
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`The key to lrisTransactive is the compositing subsystem. It requires three things to build
`a shopping solution using image composition.
`1) The original images must be created. It is suggested that the image be converted
`to Flashpix for better performance.
`2) All of the individual images must be described in XML using the image composer
`program. The program allows the editor to specify anchor points, layer attributes,
`and layer names. The resulting file is between 5k and 50k.
`3) The Web designer must place HTML referring to the XML in the Web site. By
`specifying parameters to the XML, the Web designer can tum on or off layers.
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`The herein above process for compositing images enables Web designers to create
`shopping sites. However, a lot of overhead is the result. The XML documents add 5k-
`50k to a Web site. The compositing commands that are embedded in the HTML are
`difficult to understand. And, because the compositing feature requires several steps to
`implement, it is not suitable for every image on a Web site. The process seems to be
`designed for the specific purpose of shopping.
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`MediaBin(TM) is limited to activities behind the firewall automating only the "post(cid:173)
`In addition, MediaBin requires the use of an application server to
`creative busywork."
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`existing web page.
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`Macromedia's Generator operates by embedding variables in their proprietary Flash
`format. Therefore the actual imaging operations are somewhat limited and cannot be
`controlled directly from a web page request.
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`MGI Software sells point solutions that require end-users to download a viewer to
`process a proprietary image format.
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`PicturelQ offers a server-side image-processing appliance that provides a limited set of
`Photoshop functionalities. This appliance runs on the web-page server, processes
`information embedded in the web page, and rewrites the web page with image data.
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`The disclosed prior art fail to provide systems and methodologies that result in a
`quantum leap in the speed with which they can modify and add images, video, and
`sound to sites, in the volume of data they can publish internally and externally, and in the
`quality of the output. The development of such an automated media delivery system
`would constitute a major technological advance.
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`It would be advantageous to empower an end user with flexibility and control by
`providing interactive page capabilities.
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`It would be advantageous from an end user's perspective to generate Web pages that
`contain active graphics. For example, clicking on a Corvette image will cause a simple
`menu to pop up suggesting alternative colors and sizes in which to see the car. Clicking
`on portions of the image, such as a fender, can call up a close-in view of the fender.
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`It would be advantageous to provide an automated graphics delivery system that
`becomes part of the Web site infrastructure and operates as part of the Web page
`transaction and that thereby provides a less expensive and less time-consuming
`process.
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`It would be advantageous to provide a system for automated processing and delivery
`of media (images, video, and sound) to a Web server whereby it eliminates the
`laborious post-production and conversion work that must be done before a media asset
`can be delivered on a Web server.
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`It would be advantageous to create a dynamic Web site, wherein images are generated
`on demand from original assets, wherein only the original assets need to be updated,
`and wherein updated changes propagate throughout the site.
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`It would be advantageous to provide a system that generates media based on current
`Web server traffic thereby optimizing throughput of the media through the Web server.
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`It would be advantageous to provide a system that generates media that is optimized
`for the Web client, wherein client connection speed determines optimum quality and file
`size.
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`It would be advantageous to provide a system that generates media, whereby the
`media is automatically uploaded.
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`It would be advantageous to provide a system that automatically caches generated
`media so identical requests can be handled without regeneration of images.
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`It would be advantageous to provide a system that resides behind the Web server,
`thereby eliminating security issues.
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`It would be advantageous to provide a system wherein the client browser does not
`require a plug-in.
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`It would be advantageous to provide a system wherein the system does not require
`any changes to a Web server.
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`It would be advantageous to provide a system wherein the system manages the Web
`server media cache.
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`It would be advantageous to provide a system wherein the Web media is generated
`only if requested by a client browser.
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`It would be advantageous for a system to reduce the need for a Web author to create
`different versions of a Web site, the system automatically handling image content.
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`It would be advantageous to provide dynamic imaging capabilities, have a more
`complete set of image processing functionality, and be controlled directly through an
`image URL
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`It would be advantageous to provide an end-to-end solution requiring only a standard
`browser that is completely controllable using the proprietary tags contained within a
`simple image link in the web page.
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`It would be advantageous to run an image application as a separate server controlled
`directly by single image requests to that server, such that any web server, even one
`that is only sending static HTML can access imaging features.
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`SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
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`An automatic graphics delivery system that operates in parallel with an existing Web
`site infrastructure is provided. The system streamlines the post-production process by
`automating the production of media through content generation procedures controlled by
`proprietary tags placed within URLs embedded within Web documents. The author
`simply places the original media in the system, and adds proprietary tags to the URLs
`for accessing that media. The system automatically processes the URL encoded tags
`and automatically produces derivative media for the web site from the original media.
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`The system takes as input the client connection, server traffic, content generation
`procedures, and proprietary tags placed within the URL to generate optimized media
`for the client. The need for the Web author to create different versions of a Web site is
`reduced because the image content of the site is automatically handled by the system.
`In addition, generated media is cached such that further requests for the same media
`require little overhead.
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`Because the invention takes the original media, content generation procedures, and
`proprietary URL tags as inputs for generating the Web media, it is possible to modify
`any of these inputs and have the system automatically update the media on the
`associated Web pages.
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`Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram showing the placement of the system within a current Web
`infrastructure according to the invention;
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`Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram showing how a typical Web site delivers an HTML
`document and its graphics to a Web browser according to the prior art;
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`Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram showing delivery of an HTML document and media to a
`Web browser according to the invention;
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`is a schematic diagram showing the components involved
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`Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram showing the components of the system involved in Web
`site administration according to the invention;
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`Fig. 6 is a simple overview showing the components of the system according to the
`invention;
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`Fig. 7 is a schematic diagram showing the process flow of a proprietary enabled page
`delivered to a Web browser according to the invention;
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`Fig. 9 is a flow chart showing an HTML parsing process according to the invention;
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`Fig. 10 is a flow chart showing a media creation process according to the inventi

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