Method for viewing non-image attachments on a portable electronic device
US7640311B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 31, 2006 |
| Grant date | Dec 29, 2009 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 30, 2027 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T2200/16
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method for viewing an attachment of an email message on a portable electronic device in which the attachment has a renderable format is provided. The method includes: requesting to view the attachment in an attachment viewer of the portable electronic device, building a graph structure within an attachment server representing a map of the attachment, the graph structure including at least one renderable identifier corresponding to a page of the attachment, requesting rendering of the attachment, the rendering request being send from the attachment viewer to the attachment server and including the at least one renderable identifier, initializing a rendering library and storing rendering commands corresponding to command types of the graph structure in the rendering library, drawing the rendering commands in an off-screen bitmap, saving the off-screen bitmap as a JPEG file, sending the JPEG file to the portable electronic device and displaying the JPEG file in the attachment viewer.
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