SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING UNSUPPORTED DOCUMENT TYPES BETWEEN COMMUNICATION DEVICES

摘要

An improved system and method are disclosed 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.

主权项

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; receiving, by the first communication device from the document server, access information corresponding to a first page of the plurality of pages, wherein the access information identifies a location of the first page on a network accessible storage location; retrieving, by the first communication device, the first page from the network accessible storage location using the access information; sending, by the first communication device, the access information for the first page to the second communication device; and displaying, by the first communication device, the first page on a display.