Web server enabling direct scheduling and calendaring capability

• US 20010005848A1
• Filed: 01/31/2001
• Published: 06/28/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/1997
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Estrada, Julio, Estrada, Miguel, Haverstock, Paul
• Granted Patent: US 7,117,271 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/131 Fragmentation of text files, e.g. creating reusable text-blocks; Linking to fragments, e.g. using XInclude; Namespaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/151 Transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates

Abstract

A client/server network enables access to non-HTML objects from a web browser. The system includes a database for storing non-HTML files. A system user requests a non-HTML file from a database using a web browser. The web browser transmits the request to a server via a HTTP server and module. The server locates and retrieves the object requested. The module translates the object to a format supported by the web browser. The HTTP server communicates the translated file to the web browser over a network. The web browser then presents the translated file to the system user.

Claims

1. A client/server network system for enabling web browser access to HTML and non-HTML objects comprising:

at least one client comprising a web browser;

at least one web server operable to receive and respond to requests from the web browser, the web server comprising;

a server module;

an interface module including a non-HTML to HTML translator; and

a non-HTML database server module.

2. The client/server network system of

claim 1

, wherein the web server is operable to:

i) receive from the web browser a URL-based request for a non-HTML object;

ii) determine the location of the non-HTML object;

iii) retrieve the non-HTML object;

iv) translate the non-HTML object to an HTML object; and

v) pass the HTML object to the browser.

3. The client/server network system of

claim 1

, wherein the server module comprises an HTTP server.

4. The client/server network system of

claim 1

, further comprising one or more non-HTML databases for storing non-HTML objects and one or more HTML databases for storing HTML objects.

5. The client/server network system of

claim 1

, wherein the HTML and non-HTML databases comprise programmable object stores.

6. The client/server network system of

claim 1

, wherein the HTML objects comprise one or more programmable HTML fields.

7. The client/server network system of

claim 1

, wherein the server module comprises an HTTP server and the non-HTML comprises a Notes server module.

8. The client/server network system of

claim 1

, further comprising one or more Notes databases, wherein the system enables Notes functionality to be exposed to a web browser.

9. A client/server network system for enabling web browser access to HTML and non-HTML objects comprising:

means for presenting HTML and non-HTML objects;

means for receiving and responding to requests from the means for presenting, the means for receiving comprising;

HTML object receiving means;

means for translating HTML objects to non-HTML objects; and

non-HTML object receiving means.

10. The client/server network system of

claim 9

, wherein the means for receiving is operable to:

i) receive from the means for presenting a URL-based request for a non-HTML object;

ii) determine the location of the non-HTML object;

iii) retrieve the non-HTML object;

iv) translate the non-HTML object to an HTML object; and

v) pass the HTML object to the means for presenting.

11. The client/server network system of

claim 9

, wherein the HTML object receiving means comprises a HTTP server.

12. The client/server network system of

claim 9

, further comprising one or more means for storing non-HTML objects and one or more storage means for storing HTML objects.

13. The client/server network system of

claim 9

, wherein the means for storing and storage means comprise programmable object stores.

14. The client/server network system of

claim 9

, wherein the HTML objects comprise one or more programmable HTML fields.

15. The client/server network system of

claim 9

, wherein the HTML object receiving means comprises a HTTP server and the non-HTML object receiving means comprises a Notes server module.

16. The client/server network system of

claim 9

, further comprising one or more Notes databases, wherein the system enables Notes functionality to be exposed to a web browser.

17. A method for enabling web browser access to HTML and non-HTML objects comprising the steps of:

requesting one or more non-HTML objects using a browser;

receiving the request at a server;

responding to the request from the browser;

translating the non-HTML objects to HTML objects;

communicating the HTML objects to the browser; and

presenting the HTML object using the browser.

18. The method of

claim 17

further comprising the steps of:

i) receiving from the browser a URL-based request for a non-HTML object;

ii) determining the location of the non-HTML object;

iii) retrieving the non-HTML object;

iv) translating the non-HTML object to an HTML object; and

v) passing the HTML formatted object to the browser.

19. The method of

claim 18

where the step of receiving receives the request using HTTP.

20. A computer useable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein for presenting a non-HTML object using a browser, the computer readable program code in the computer usable medium comprising:

computer readable program code for causing a computer to store one or more non-HTML objects in one or more databases;

computer readable program code for causing a computer to request one or more non-HTML objects using a browser;

computer readable program code for causing a computer to receive the request at a server;

computer readable program code for causing a computer to respond to the request from the browser;

computer readable program code for causing a computer to translate the one or more non-HTML objects into one or more HTML objects;

computer readable program code for causing a computer to communicate the HTML objects to the browser; and

computer readable program code for causing a computer to present the HTML objects using the browser.