EFFICIENT ENCODING OF ALTERNATIVE GRAPHIC SETS

摘要

EMBODIMENTS PROVIDE FOR EFFICIENT ENCODING AND RENDERING OF REMOTE GRAPHIC DISPLAYS BY APPLYING ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: (1) FIELD ENCODING FOR IDENTIFYING FIELDS OF A GRAPHICS SET (155) SUCH THAT COMMONALITIES OF VARIOUS FIELDS ACROSS DIFFERENT GRAPHICS LANGUAGES ARE IDENTIFIED; (2) RESOURCE CACHING, WHICH TREATS HETEROGENEOUS RESOURCES IN A HOMOGENEOUS WAY WHEN IT COMES TO STORING THEM; (3) DETERMINING THE TYPE OF ENCODING FOR REMOTING ITEMS WITHIN A GRAPHICS SET (155) BASED UPON THE TYPES OF COMPRESSION MECHANISMS SUPPORTED BY A REMOTE DEVICE (110); (4) IMPROVING RESPONSIVENESS BY RENDERING WITH PARTIALLY SENT RESOURCES; (5) A MECHANISM FOR DETERMINING WHAT PORTIONS (IF ANY) OF A GRAPHICS SET SHOULD BE SENT TO A REMOTE DEVICE (110) AND IN WHAT ORDER; AND (6) USE OF DEDICATED RESOURCES ALREADY ON A REMOTE DEVICE (110) IN ORDER TO ELIMINATE THE TRANSFER OF A RESOURCE BETWEEN A LOCAL DEVICE (105) AND THE REMOTE DEVICE (110) WHEN RENDERING SUCH RESOURCE.