System and method for sharing unsupported document types between communication devices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9356997-B2
Application number	US-201414478498-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 5, 2014
Priority date	Apr 4, 2011
Publication date	May 31, 2016
Grant date	May 31, 2016

Abstract

An improved system and method for sharing a document between two communication devices that do not have an application that can display the document. In one example, the document is sent by the communication device that is sharing the document to a document server for processing into pages of one or more different document types, and both communication devices retrieve the stored pages as needed for display. The sharing communication device updates the other communication device when a new page is to be retrieved from the document server.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for sharing a document comprising:
sending, by a first communication device, a document of a first document type to a document server for processing into a plurality of pages of a second document type that is different from the first document type, wherein the first communication device does not have access to an application required to display the first document type but has access to an application required to display the second document type;
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Assignees

• Damaka Inc

Inventors

• Chaturvedi Sivakumar
• Gundabathula Satish

Classifications

• G06F16/1794

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L67/1097 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F16/1824

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L67/10 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F17/30179

  Physics · mapped topic