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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2004
Filed:
May. 02, 1997
Jacob Leon Guedalia, Jerusalem, IL;
Roxio, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for transmitting digital data to an active desktop of a user with push pull functionality, the system comprising a digital data transmitter operative to transmit the digital data to the active desktop in blocks which are sequentially transmitted to the active desktop, each block being an incomplete collection of data and being viewable even when less than all of the blocks have been received, receipt of subsequent blocks by the receiver serving to cumulatively improve the quality of the digital data received by the receiver, at least one but not all of the blocks being transmitted to the active desktop in a push manner, and at least one of the remaining blocks being transmitted to the active desktop in a pull manner, when specifically actuated by the user. A method is also described and claimed.