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`US 6,792,575
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`6,792,575
`PATENT:
`INVENTORS: SAMANIEGO CHRISTOPHER
`OFFNER NELSON H ROCKY
`THEWLIS ADRIAN D
`BOYD DAVID R
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`TITLE:
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`Automated processing and delivery of media
`to web servers
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`APPLICATION
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`FILED:
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`US1999425326A
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`21 OCT 1999
`14 SEP 2004
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`COMPILED:
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`Akamai Ex. 1034
`Akamai Techs. v. Equil IP Holdings
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`6,792,575
`AUTOMATED PROCESSING AND DELIVERY OF MEDIA TO WEB
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`Transaction History
`Transaction Description
`Date
`Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) Filed
`10-21-1999
`Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) Filed
`10-21-1999
`Initial Exam Team nn
`10-27-1999
`Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) Filed
`11-12-1999
`Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) Filed
`11-12-1999
`11-17-1999 Application Dispatched from OIPE
`02-09-2000 Case Docketed to Examiner in GAU
`10-20-2000 Case Docketed to Examiner in GAU
`10-20-2000 Case Docketed to Examiner in GAU
`08-06-2001 Case Docketed to Examiner in GAU
`11-06-2001 Case Docketed to Examiner in GAU
`11-18-2001 Case Docketed to Examiner in GAU
`11-18-2002 Case Docketed to Examiner in GAU
`01-07-2003 Case Docketed to Examiner in GAU
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`10-20-2003 Non-Final Rejection
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`01-14-2004 Response after Non-Final Action
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`AUTOMATED PROCESSING AND DELIVERY OF
`MEDIA TO WEB SERVERS
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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 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 placingimages, 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
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`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
`• Asset Staging
`- 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 more
`closely or from a different angle. On the horizon are pages with three-dimensional 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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`D. C. A. Bulterman, Models, Media, and Motion: Using the Web to Support Muffimedia
`Documents, Proceedings of 1997 International Conference on Multimedia Modeling,
`Singapore, 17-20 Nov. 1997 discloses "an effort underway QY members of industry,
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`research centers and user groups to define a standard document format that can be used h
`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 modet,and format."
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`Text and Graphics on UM/'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
`Text+Graphics, in which graphics are stored separately from the text and are manipulable
`as discrete items .... [The system] comes in two versions: Windows and Web."
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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 classifk:ation 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 lntemets or lntranets .... The ... databases may be
`searched for references (URLs) to web pages by use of enquiries which reference one or
`more of the items of the CCG-data. Alternatively, enquiries referencing the CCG-data i,
`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 Links 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 in the
`hypertext document may be edited, the data processing system inserting tags into the
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`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 revised data
`Its main purpose is to
`set and updating the link information after the editing process.
`preserve the linking hierarchy that may get lost when·the individual data sets get modified."
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`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 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 i1
`initiation of the interactive function. A broad base of existing non-interactive media content,
`such as movies, videos, advertising, and television 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 facilitating the generation of N Data. In a
`In a
`data storage disk, the Frame Data and the N Data are stored on separate sectors.
`network system, the object mapping data and IDM program are downloaded to a
`subscriber terminal 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 information,
`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 information, and presenting that information 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
`particularly directed to automatic generation of an HTML file, based on a scanned-in
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`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 panning
`and simple image transformations and conversions, respectively. They support 10 file
`formats and allow developers to add new file fonnats 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, but suggests using their plug-ins for better performance. 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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`In their latest version, TrueSpectra fixed their software so that communication to the server
`will not have to be through a certain port. Using TrueSpectra without a port requires the
`system to use Javascript or Active Server Pages. This requirement is not always possible
`so firewall issues remain.
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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 fonnats. 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.
`shopping solution using image composition.
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`It requires three things to build a
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`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 s