Independently refreshing a plurality of portlets in a portal page by using a refresh tag embedded in portlet markup in each portlet to call a refresh servlet to write a refresh controller

• US 10,289,745 B2
• Filed: 03/20/2012
• Issued: 05/14/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Lection, David B., Masselle, Eric L., Salahshoor, Mohamad R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Paula, Cesar B
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chen, Yahao
• Application Number:
  US13/424,882
• Publication Number:
  US 20120179985A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,611 Days
• Field of Search: 715200, 715760
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to portlet content refreshing and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and apparatus for independently refreshing portlet content in a portal view. In an embodiment of the invention, a system for refreshing portlet content in a portal view can include a portal server configured to render a portal page, a portlet aggregator configured to provide portlet markup for different portlets in different refresh controllers having independently refreshable portions, and a refresh servlet coupled to the portlet aggregator that includes programming to configure the portal page with the different refresh controllers.

Claims

1. A method, performed within a portal server, of aggregating a portal page including a plurality of different portlets, comprising:

refreshing, independently, each of the plurality of different portlets using a plurality of different refresh controllers, wherein

each of the plurality of different refresh controllers

is, respectively, associated with one of the plurality of different portlets, and

controls a refresh rate of the one of the plurality of different portlets,

the refresh rate for a particular portlet within the plurality portlets is derived using a refresh tag embedded in portlet markup, and

the refresh tag calls a refresh servlet to write a particular refresh controller associated with the particular portlet using parameters provided by the refresh tag.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein

a refresh rate associated with a first of the plurality of different portlets is independent of a refresh rate associated with a second of the plurality of different portlets.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein

each of the plurality of different refresh controllers is linked, respectively, to a different one of a plurality of hidden frame within the portal page.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein

the plurality of hidden frames reference addresses of content within the portlets to be refreshed.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising

pushing the portal page to a client computer system.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein

each of the plurality of different refresh controllers includes a refresh script, and

the refresh script controls the refresh rate of the portlet.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein

each of the plurality of different refresh controllers, consistent with the refresh rate associated with the respective refresh controller, writes content to the portal page.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein

a particular one of the plurality of different portlets includes a plurality of refreshed elements, and

a refresh controller associated with the particular one of the plurality of different portlets is linked with a plurality of hidden frames respectively associated with the plurality of refreshed elements.

9. A method, performed within a portal server, of aggregating a portal page including a plurality of different portlets, comprising:

refreshing, independently, each of the plurality of different portlet elements using a plurality of different refresh controllers, wherein

each of the plurality of different refresh controllers

is, respectively, associated with one of the plurality of different portlet elements, and

controls a refresh rate of the one of the plurality of different portlet elements,

a portlet element is a refreshable element within a portlet,

the refresh rate for a particular portlet within the plurality portlets is derived using a refresh tag embedded in portlet markup, and

the refresh tag calls a refresh servlet to write a particular refresh controller associated with the particular portlet using parameters provided by the refresh tag.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein

a refresh rate associated with a first of the plurality of different portlet elements is independent of a refresh rate associated with a second of the plurality of different portlet elements.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein

each of the plurality of different refresh controllers is linked, respectively, to a different one of a plurality of hidden frames within the portal page.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein

the plurality of hidden frames reference addresses of content within the portlets to be refreshed.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising

pushing the portal page to a client computer system.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein

each of the plurality of different refresh controllers includes a refresh script, and

the refresh script controls the refresh rate of the portlet element.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein

each of the plurality of different refresh controllers, consistent with the refresh rate associated with the respective refresh controller, writes content to the portal page.