Method, system, and program for providing data updates to a page including multiple regions of dynamic content

• US 20020152239A1
• Filed: 04/16/2001
• Published: 10/17/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle America, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sun Microsystems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Markel, Arieh, Bautista-Lloyd, David
• Granted Patent: US 7,000,008 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/513
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation

Abstract

Disclosed is a method, system, and program for providing data updates to a page, wherein the page includes multiple regions of dynamic content that may be separately updated independently of each other. The regions of the page are displayed within a presentation program executing on a client. A server transfers the page to the client over a network. The server detects state changes and queues information on the state changes. The server further generates an update package including content indicating the state changes and sends the update package to the client. The presentation program in the client renders the information on the state changes to the regions of the page including the dynamic content modified by the content indicating the state changes.

Claims

1. A method for providing data updates to a page, wherein the page includes multiple regions of dynamic content that may be separately updated independently of each other, wherein the regions and the page are displayed within a presentation program executing on a client, wherein a server transfers the page to the client over a network, and wherein the server performs:

detecting state changes;

queuing information on the state changes;

generating an update package including content indicating the detected state changes;

sending the update package to the client, wherein the presentation program in the client renders the information on the state changes to the regions of the page including the dynamic content modified by the content indicating the state changes.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the update package is generated and sent to the client computer in response to a request from the client computer.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the presentation program comprises a web browser and wherein the request comprises a HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request.