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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 13, 1999
Lawrence M. Bain, Mountain View, CA (US);
David E. Waller, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Thomas Wang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Andrew H. Mutz, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Lawrence M. Bain, Mountain View, CA (US);
David E. Waller, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Thomas Wang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Andrew H. Mutz, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method and system for associating active regions with positions within displayed images in a device and display independent manner. Active regions are described by client-side image maps include in hyper-text markup language descriptions of web pages that include specifications of images to be displayed within the web pages. The specifications of images and descriptions of client-side image maps are replaced by servers with a parameterized call to an image viewer, invoked by a browser on a client computer to display the image. The browser maintains an internal description of the positions of active regions in image-relative coordinates, thereby providing dynamic viewing of web pages that include images with associated active regions while maintaining the originally-defined correspondence between the active regions and images.