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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2005
Blaise Aguera Y Arcas, Seattle, WA (US);
Julian Walker, Seattle, WA (US);
Ian Gilman, Seattle, WA (US);
Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Seattle, WA (US);
Julian Walker, Seattle, WA (US);
Ian Gilman, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are disclosed, that may include establishing communication between a first computer and a second computer over a communication link, the second computer having an image collection stored therein in the form of compressed image data; selecting a plurality of images in the collection for communication to said first computer; and transmitting low-resolution image data for all of the selected images from the second computer to the first computer before transmitting full-resolution image data for any of the selected images.