In one embodiment, a method of serving information to a distributed hypermedia browser comprises receiving a request from the browser at an Internet server to locate information, transmitting a message from the Internet server to a database server in response to receiving the request to locate information, searching a database on the database server for descriptive information for at least one feature in a multi-dimensional image having more than two dimensions and having a plurality of features, providing location information from the database server to indicate the location of the feature, receiving a response comprising the location information at the Internet server from the database server, and transmitting at least a portion of the response from the database server to the browser. |
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Claims1. A method of serving information to a distributed hypermedia browser executing on a client workstation, the method comprising: - receiving a request from the browser at an Internet server, using an I/O interface of the Internet server, to locate information;
- transmitting a message from the Internet server to a database server, using the I/O interface of the Internet server, in response to receiving the request to locate information;
- searching a database on the database server, using a CPU on the database server for descriptive information for at least one feature in a multi-dimensional image having more than two dimensions and having a plurality of features;
- determining location information, using the CPU on the database server, that indicates the location of the feature;
- receiving a response comprising the location information at the Internet server, using the I/O interface at the Internet server, from the database server; and
- transmitting at least a portion of the response from the database server, using an I/O interface at the database server, to the browser.
2. A method of serving location information to a distributed hypermedia browser executing on a client workstation, the method comprising: - receiving a request from the browser at an Internet server, using an I/O interface of the Internet server, to locate at least one object in a multidimensional image;
- transmitting a message from the Internet server to a database server in response to receiving the request;
- searching a database on the database server, using a CPU on the database server, for descriptive information correlated to at least one object mapped in the multi-dimensional image, the image having more than two dimensions and having a plurality of objects mapped;
- determining location information, using the CPU on the database server, that indicates the location of the object;
- receiving a response comprising the location information at the Internet server, using the I/O interface of the Internet server, from the database server; and
- transmitting at least a portion of the response from the database server, using an I/O interface at the database server, to the browser.
3. A method of locating information with a distributed hypermedia browser executing on a client workstation, the method comprising: - sending a request from the browser to an Internet server, using an I/O interface of the Internet server, to locate information, the request causing one or more servers to:
- transmit a message from the Internet server to a database server in response to receiving the request to locate information;
- search a database on the database server, using a CPU on the database server, for descriptive information for at least one feature in a multi-dimensional image having more than two dimensions and having a plurality of features
- determining location information, using the CPU on the database server, that indicates the location of the feature;
- receive a response comprising the location information at the Internet server using the I/O interface of the Internet server, from the database server; and
- transmit at least a portion of the response from the database server, using an I/O interface at the database server, to the browser.
4. A method of locating information with a distributed hypermedia browser executing on a client workstation, the method comprising: - sending a request from the browser to an Internet server to locate at least one object in a multidimensional image, the request causing one or more servers to:
- transmit a message from the Internet server to a database server, using an I/O interface of the Internet server, in response to receiving the request;
- search a database on the database server, using a CPU on the database server, for descriptive information correlated to at least one object mapped in the multi-dimensional image, the image having more than two dimensions and having a plurality of objects mapped;
- determining location information, using the CPU on the database server, that indicates the location of the object;
- receive a response comprising the location information at the Internet server, using the I/O interface of the Internet server, from the database server; and
- transmit at least a portion of the response from the database server, using an I/O interface at the database server, to the browser.
5. A method of providing communication channels for locating information with a distributed hypermedia browser executing on a client workstation, the method comprising: - providing network communication channels for receiving a request from the browser at an Internet server, using an I/O interface of the Internet server, to locate information, the request causing one or more servers to:
- transmit a message from the Internet server to a database server, using the I/O interface of the Internet server, in response to receiving the request to locate information;
- search a database on the database server, using a CPU on the database server, for descriptive information for at least one feature in a multi-dimensional image having more than two dimensions and having a plurality of features
- determining location, using the CPU on the database server, that indicates information the location of the feature;
- receiving a response comprising the location information at the Internet server from the database server, using the I/O interface of the Internet server; and
- transmit at least a portion of the response from the database server, using an I/O interface at the database server, to the browser.
6. A method of providing communication channels for locating information with a distributed hypermedia browser executing on a client workstation, the method comprising: - providing network communication channels for receiving a request from the browser at an Internet server, using an I/O interface of the Internet server, to locate at least one object in a multidimensional image, the request causing one or more servers to:
- transmit a message from the Internet server to a database server, using the I/O interface of the Internet server, in response to receiving the request;
- search a database on the database server, using a CPU on the database server, for descriptive information correlated to at least one object mapped in the multi-dimensional image, the image having more than two dimensions and having a plurality of objects mapped;
- determining location information, using the CPU on the database server, that indicates from the database server to indicate the location of the object;
- receive a response comprising the location information at the Internet server from the database server; and
- transmit at least a portion of the response from the database server, using an I/O interface at the database server, to the browser.
7. A method of providing communication channels for locating information with a distributed hypermedia browser executing on a client workstation, the method comprising: - providing network communication channels for sending a request from the browser to an Internet server to locate information, the request causing one or more servers to:
- transmit a message from the Internet server, using an I/O interface of the Internet server, to a database server in response to receiving the request to locate information;
- search a database on the database server, using a CPU on the database server, for descriptive information for at least one feature in a multi-dimensional image having more than two dimensions and having a plurality of features
- determining location information, using the CPU on the database server, that indicates the location of the feature;
- receiving a response comprising the location information at the Internet server, using the I/O interface of the Internet server, from the database server; and
- transmit at least a portion of the response from the database server, using an I/O interface at the database server, to the browser.
8. A method of providing communication channels for locating information with a distributed hypermedia browser executing on a client workstation, the method comprising: - providing network communication channels for sending a request from the browser to an Internet server to locate at least one object in a multidimensional image, the request causing one or more servers to:
- transmit a message from the Internet server to a database server, using an I/O interface of the Internet server, in response to receiving the request;
- search a database on the database server, using a CPU on the database server, for descriptive information correlated to at least one object mapped in the multi-dimensional image, the image having more than two dimensions and having a plurality of objects mapped;
- determining location information, using the CPU on the database server, that indicates from the database server to indicate the location of the object;
- receive a response comprising the location information at the Internet server using the I/O interface of the Internet server, from the database server; and
- transmit at least a portion of the response from the database server, using an I/O interface at the database server, to the browser.
9. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media with an executable programs stored thereon, wherein the programs instructs one or more processors to perform the following steps: - receive a request from the browser at an Internet server to locate information;
- transmit a message from the Internet server to a database server in response to receiving the request to locate information;
- search a database on the database server for descriptive information for at least one feature in a multi-dimensional image having more than two dimensions and having a plurality of features;
- determine location information from the database server to indicate the location of the feature;
- receive a response comprising the location information at the Internet server from the database server; and
- transmit at least a portion of the response from the database server to the browser.
10. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media with an executable programs stored thereon, wherein the programs instructs one or more processors to perform the following steps: - receive a request from the browser at an Internet server to locate at least one object in a multidimensional image;
- transmit a message from the Internet server to a database server in response to receiving the request;
- search a database on the database server for descriptive information correlated to at least one object mapped in the multi-dimensional image, the image having more than two dimensions and having a plurality of objects mapped;
- determine location information at the database server to indicate the location of the object;
- receive a response comprising the location information at the Internet server from the database server; and
- transmit at least a portion of the response from the database server to the browser.
11. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media with an executable programs stored thereon, wherein the programs instructs one or more processors to perform the following steps: - send a request from the browser to an Internet server to locate information, the request causing one or more servers to:
- transmit a message from the Internet server to a database server in response to receiving the request to locate information;
- search a database on the database server for descriptive information for at least one feature in a multi-dimensional image having more than two dimensions and having a plurality of features;
- provide location information from the database server to indicate the location of the feature;
- receive a response comprising the location information at the Internet server from the database server; and
- transmit at least a portion of the response from the database server to the browser.
12. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media with an executable programs stored thereon, wherein the programs instructs one or more processors to perform the following steps: - send a request from the browser to an Internet server to locate at least one object in a multidimensional image, the request causing one or more servers to:
- transmit a message from the Internet server to a database server in response to receiving the request;
- search a database on the database server for descriptive information correlated to at least one object mapped in the multi-dimensional image, the image having more than two dimensions and having a plurality of objects mapped;
- provide location information from the database server to indicate the location of the object;
- receive a response comprising the location information at the Internet server from the database server; and
- transmit at least a portion of the response from the database server to the browser.
13. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media with an executable programs stored thereon, wherein the programs instructs one or more processors to perform the following steps: - provide network communication channels for receiving a request from the browser at an Internet server to locate information, the request causing one or more servers to:
- transmit a message from the Internet server to a database server in response to receiving the request to locate information;
- search a database on the database server for descriptive information for at least one feature in a multi-dimensional image having more than two dimensions and having a plurality of features;
- provide location information from the database server to indicate the location of the feature;
- receiving a response comprising the location information at the Internet server from the database server; and
- transmit at least a portion of the response from the database server to the browser.
14. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media with an executable programs stored thereon, wherein the programs instructs one or more processors to perform the following steps: - provide network communication channels for receiving a request from the browser at an Internet server to locate at least one object in a multidimensional image, the request causing one or more servers to:
- transmit a message from the Internet server to a database server in response to receiving the request;
- search a database on the database server for descriptive information correlated to at least one object mapped in the multi-dimensional image, the image having more than two dimensions and having a plurality of objects mapped;
- provide location information from the database server to indicate the location of the object;
- receive a response comprising the location information at the Internet server from the database server; and
- transmit at least a portion of the response from the database server to the browser.
15. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media with an executable programs stored thereon, wherein the programs instructs one or more processors to perform the following steps: - provide network communication channels for sending a request from the browser to an Internet server to locate information, the request causing one or more servers to:
- transmit a message from the Internet server to a database server in response to receiving the request to locate information;
- search a database on the database server for descriptive information for at least one feature in a multi-dimensional image having more than two dimensions and having a plurality of features;
- provide location information from the database server to indicate the location of the feature;
- receiving a response comprising the location information at the Internet server from the database server; and
- transmit at least a portion of the response from the database server to the browser.
16. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media with an executable programs stored thereon, wherein the programs instructs one or more processors to perform the following steps: - providing network communication channels for sending a request from the browser to an Internet server to locate at least one object in a multidimensional image, the request causing one or more servers to:
- transmit a message from the Internet server to a database server in response to receiving the request;
- search a database on the database server for descriptive information correlated to at least one object mapped in the multi-dimensional image, the image having more than two dimensions and having a plurality of objects mapped;
- provide location information from the database server to indicate the location of the object;
- receive a response comprising the location information at the Internet server from the database server; and
- transmit at least a portion of the response from the database server to the browser.
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