Methods and apparatus to manipulate embroidery designs via a communication network

1. An apparatus for manipulating an embroidery design via a communication network, comprising:

a user interface;

a processor; and

a memory comprising instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to at least:

access a communication received from a server, the communication including embroidery data;

store the embroidery data in the memory;

display, via the user interface, a first image based on the embroidery data;

edit the embroidery data stored in the memory to create modified embroidery data in response to receiving a command via the user interface; and

display, via the user interface, a second image based on the modified embroidery data in the memory.

2. An apparatus as defined in claim 1 , wherein the embroidery data and the modified embroidery data comprise vector data.

3. An apparatus as defined in claim 1 , wherein the memory is a random access memory.

4. An apparatus as defined in claim 1 , wherein the command comprises at least one of a cursor click or a cursor drag.

5. An apparatus as defined in claim 1 , wherein the instructions are further to cause the processor to edit the embroidery data to modify at least one of a physical size of an embroidery pattern, a location of the embroidery pattern, or an orientation of the embroidery pattern, based on the command.

6. An apparatus as defined in claim 1 , wherein the communication from the server further comprises a rendered image of a substrate, and the instructions are further to cause the processor to display the second image based on the rendered image of the substrate.

7. An apparatus as defined in claim 6 , wherein the instructions are further to cause the processor to display the second image overlapped with the rendered image of the substrate.

8. An apparatus as defined in claim 1 , wherein the instructions are further to cause the processor to transmit a first request representative of the edit to the embroidery data.

9. An apparatus as defined in claim 8 , wherein the instructions are further to cause the processor to:

edit the modified embroidery data to create second modified embroidery data; and

transmit a second request representative of the edit to the modified embroidery data, the second request to cause the server to cancel the first request.

10. An apparatus as defined in claim 8 , wherein the instructions are further to cause the processor to receive a second communication from the server, the second communication comprising second embroidery data based on the edit to the embroidery data.

11. An apparatus as defined in claim 1 , wherein the communication comprises at least one of wireframe data, text object data, a composite representation, or line data.

12. An apparatus as defined in claim 1 , wherein the instructions are further to cause the processor to:

access a second communication from the server, the second communication comprising second instructions, the processor to edit the embroidery data stored in the memory to create the modified embroidery data by executing the second instructions in response to the receiving the command via the user interface.

13. An apparatus as defined in claim 12 , wherein the second instructions comprise software to view, manipulate, and edit the embroidery data stored in the memory.

14. An apparatus as defined in claim 1 , wherein the communication from the server further comprises a uniform resource locator of an image file that was created by the server and that corresponds to the embroidery data.