Hybrid server-side and client-side portal aggregation and rendering

• US 10,324,737 B2
• Filed: 11/06/2017
• Issued: 06/18/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Falkenberg, Matthias
• Primary Examiner(s): Paula, Cesar B
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen, Luu-Phuong T
• Application Number:
  US15/803,856
• Publication Number:
  US 20180060090A1
• Time in Patent Office: 589 Days
• Field of Search: 715234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3612 by runtime analysis performance monitoring G06F11/3466
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/875 Monitoring of systems including the internet
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/14 Tree-structured documents parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4401 Bootstrapping security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

Rendering of a portal page that is displayable on a client system includes receiving a request for a portal page by a web portal engine, monitoring server-side aggregation and rendering performance by the web portal engine, and comparing a measured performance parameter value of the server-side aggregation and rendering against a pre-defined threshold value. The server-side aggregation and rendering is interrupted, based upon the comparison, once the threshold value is exceeded. Further, an intermediate result of the portal page is prepared based on the server-side aggregation and rendering for sending, such that a client-side processing completes the interrupted aggregation and rendering of the portal page.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method within a portal server, comprising:

monitoring performance of server-side aggregation and rendering of a requested portal page;

comparing a measured performance parameter value of the server-side aggregation and rendering against a pre-defined threshold value;

interrupting, based on a pre-defined transmission parameter value such that the interrupting occurs after a value equivalent to the threshold value minus the pre-defined transmission parameter value, the server-side aggregation and rendering; and

preparing an intermediate result of the requested portal page, wherein

a client-side processing completes the interrupted aggregation and rendering of the portal page.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein

the measured performance parameter value and the pre-defined threshold value are time-based values.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein

the intermediate result includes already aggregated and rendered portions of the requested portal page,

the intermediate result includes a placeholder for at least one of non-aggregated or non-rendered elements of the requested portal page, and

the placeholder is interpretable by a client-side aggregator and rendering engine.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein

the placeholder is based on mark-up language elements representing a microformat including an information object.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein

the threshold value is retrievable from a policy repository using an identifier of the requested portal page as access key.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein

a plurality of threshold values belong to a class of portal pages.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein

the server-side aggregation and rendering includes at least one out of the group consisting of a web portal theme, a portlet, and a widget.

8. A computer hardware system within a portal server, comprising

a hardware processor programmed to initiate the following executable operations:

monitoring performance of server-side aggregation and rendering of a requested portal page;

comparing a measured performance parameter value of the server-side aggregation and rendering against a pre-defined threshold value;

interrupting, based on a pre-defined transmission parameter value such that the interrupting occurs after a value equivalent to the threshold value minus the pre-defined transmission parameter value, the server-side aggregation and rendering; and

preparing an intermediate result of the requested portal page, wherein

a client-side processing completes the interrupted aggregation and rendering of the portal page.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein

the measured performance parameter value and the pre-defined threshold value are time-based values.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein

the intermediate result includes already aggregated and rendered portions of the requested portal page,

the intermediate result includes a placeholder for at least one of non-aggregated or non-rendered elements of the requested portal page, and

the placeholder is interpretable by a client-side aggregator and rendering engine.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein

the placeholder is based on mark-up language elements representing a microformat including an information object.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein

the threshold value is retrievable from a policy repository using an identifier of the requested portal page as access key.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein

a plurality of threshold values belong to a class of portal pages.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein

the server-side aggregation and rendering includes at least one out of the group consisting of a web portal theme, a portlet, and a widget.

15. A computer program product, comprising

a hardware storage device having program code,

the program code, which when executed by a computer hardware system within a portal server, causes the computer hardware system to perform:

monitoring performance of server-side aggregation and rendering of a requested portal page;

comparing a measured performance parameter value of the server-side aggregation and rendering against a pre-defined threshold value;

interrupting, based on a pre-defined transmission parameter value such that the interrupting occurs after a value equivalent to the threshold value minus the pre-defined transmission parameter value, the server-side aggregation and rendering; and

preparing an intermediate result of the requested portal page, wherein

a client-side processing completes the interrupted aggregation and rendering of the portal page.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein

the measured performance parameter value and the pre-defined threshold value are time-based values.

17. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein

the intermediate result includes already aggregated and rendered portions of the requested portal page,

the intermediate result includes a placeholder for at least one of non-aggregated or non-rendered elements of the requested portal page, and

the placeholder is interpretable by a client-side aggregator and rendering engine.

18. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein

the placeholder is based on mark-up language elements representing a microformat including an information object.

19. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein

the threshold value is retrievable from a policy repository using an identifier of the requested portal page as access key.

20. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein

a plurality of threshold values belong to a class of portal pages.