Web presentation management system

• US 20020161802A1
• Filed: 02/27/2001
• Published: 10/31/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: David B. Weiss, Kurt A. Gabrick
• Original Assignee: David B. Weiss, Kurt A. Gabrick
• Inventors: Weiss, David B., Gabrick, Kurt A.
• Application Number:
  US09/793,928
• Publication Number:
  US 20020161802A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/517
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191

Abstract

A method for managing web server presentations comprised of the steps of analyzing attributes associated with a web request from a user; formatting a document to be sent to the user based upon the attributes; and transmitting data corresponding to a document to the user.

Claims

1. A method for managing web server presentations comprised of the steps of:

a) analyzing attributes associated with a web request from a user;

b) formatting a document to be sent to the user based upon the attributes;

c) transmitting data corresponding to the document to the user.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprised of the step of forming a set of commands based on the attributes.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprised of the step of executing the commands to format the document.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the step of formatting the document comprises the step of obtaining data and information from external systems.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the formatting is performed by a translator that translates the document into a page having a standardized format.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the translator has a stylesheet for storing formats corresponding to particular attributes.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprised of the additional step of preemptively caching web instances.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprised of the additional step wherein the web instances are selected from the group consisting of commands, documents and pages.

9. The method of claim 7 wherein the preemptive caching is multilayered.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the attributes are selected from the list consisting of URI, the identifier of a stylesheet map and the identifier of a map entry.

11. The web management system of claim 1 sending session data to one or more other web servers using session replication protocol.

12. The web management system of claim 11 wherein the web server receives copies of the session data from other server instances.

13. The web management system of claim 12 wherein ownership of the specific session instances is transferred.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the stylesheet is selected from a stylesheet cache.

16. The method of claim 14 wherein the page is selected from a page cache.

14. A method for managing web server presentations comprising the steps of:

a) receiving a web request;

b) executing one or more commands in response to the web request within the server to obtain resulting data;

c) converting the resulting data from the one or more commands into a standardized representation in the form of a document;

d) examining the document for attributes and selecting a stylesheet based on the attributes, said stylesheet having transformation rules;

e) transforming the document into a page by applying the transformation rules found in the stylesheet;

f) delivering the page to a user in the form of a web response.