Information providing system and method and storage medium

• US 20030229683A1
• Filed: 03/26/2003
• Published: 12/11/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Tadashi, Oshima, Takuya, Miura, Atsushi, Hirano, Yoshiaki
• Granted Patent: US 7,458,026 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

An information providing system and method and a storage medium which provide information services to each client apparatus on which a browser for browsing content and at least one object operate, through the cooperation with the operation of the object. A server apparatus has a view server for providing content to the browser, a communication server for making communication with the object, and an application sever for making the view server and the application server cooperate with each other. When a read operation from the object is performed, the communication server notifies the application server of a result of the read operation, thereby providing synchronization between the communication server and the view server.

Claims

1. A system for providing information to a client apparatus on which a browser for browsing content and at least one object operate, comprising:

a view server for providing content to said browser;

a communication server for making communication with said object; and

an application server for making said view server and said communication server cooperate with each other.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein said view server dynamically generates contents.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein said view server dynamically generates contents by use of JSP (Java Server Pages).

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein, when connection is made with said object on said client apparatus, said communication server notifies said application server of the establishment of connection, thereby providing synchronization between said communication server and said view server.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein, when mutual authentication is performed with said object of said client apparatus, said communication server notifies said application server of a result of said mutual authentication, thereby providing synchronization between said communication server and said view server.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein, when a read operation is performed on said object of said client apparatus, said communication server notifies said application server of a result of said read operation, thereby providing synchronization between said communication server and said view server.

7. The system according to claim 5, wherein said application server notifies said view server of the contents of the read operation result in response to the read result notice from said communication server, thereby synchronizing display contents on said browser with said read result.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein, when a write operation is performed on said object of said client apparatus, thereby providing synchronization between said communication server and said view server.

9. The system according to claim 7, wherein, in response to the write result notice from said communication server, said application server notifies said view server of a result of said write operation, thereby synchronizing display contents on said browser with the write result from said object.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein, when the communication with said object of said client apparatus is closed, said communication server notifies said application server of a result of the close operation, thereby providing synchronization between said communication server and said view server.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein the step of providing content to said browser dynamically generate content by use of JSP.

13. The method according to claim 10, wherein, when connection is made with said object of said client apparatus, the provision of content to said browser is made cooperate with the communication with said object.

14. The method according to claim 10, wherein, when mutual authentication is performed with said object of said client apparatus, the provision of content to said browser is made cooperate with the communication with said object.

15. The method according to claim 10, wherein, when a read operation is performed on said object of said client apparatus, the provision of content to said browser is made cooperate with the communication with said object.

16. The method according to claim 14, wherein a cooperation is provided between a result of said read operation from said object and content to be provided to said browser, thereby synchronizing display contents on said browser with the result of said read operation on said object.

17. The method according to claim 10, wherein, when a write operation is performed on said object of said client apparatus, the provision of content to said browser is made cooperate with the communication with object.

18. The method according to claim 16, wherein, a cooperation is provided between a result of said write operation on said object and content to be provided to said browser, thereby synchronizing display contents on said browser with the result of said write operation on said object.

19. The method according to claim 10, wherein communication with said object of said client apparatus is closed, a cooperation is provided between the provision of content to said browser and the communication with said object.

11. A method for providing information services to a client apparatus on which a browser for browsing content and at least one object operate, comprising the steps of:

providing content to said browser;

making communication with said object; and

making provision of content to said browser and communication with said object cooperate with each other.

20. A storage medium storing a computer-readable software coded to execute, on a computer system, processing for providing information services to a client apparatus on which a browser for browsing content and at least one object operate, said computer-readable software comprising the steps of:

providing content to said browser;

making communication with said object; and

making provision of content to said browser and communication with said object cooperate with each other.

21. A computer software program coded to execute, on a computer system, processing for providing information services to a client apparatus on which a browser for browsing content and at least one object operate, said computer software program comprising the steps of:

providing content to said browser;

making communication with said object; and

making provision of content to said browser and communication with said object cooperate with each other.