. . "Where the virtual slide is in digital form, it may be stored on a medium, such as in a computer memory or storage device, and may be transmitted over a communication network, such as the Internet, an intranet, a network described with respect to FIG. 6 and FIG. 7, etc., to a viewer at a remote location, such as one of nodes 254, 256, 258, or 260 described with respect to FIG. 7 and which may be, f" . .