Method and system for web application builder

• US 20040205695A1
• Filed: 03/30/2001
• Published: 10/14/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Homeproject.Com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Homeproject.Com, Inc.
• Inventors: Fletcher, David
• Application Number:
  US09/820,806
• Publication Number:
  US 20040205695A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/105
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display

Abstract

A system for building web applications in a client-server computing environment, including a server-side software engine including a database interface for a database of three-dimensional graphics objects, and a web application configuration file including initialization settings for a server computer and design settings for a graphical user interface for a web application, and a client-side software engine including a programming interface for developer plug-ins that render the three-dimensional graphics objects, and a web application user interface manager that provides a user interface for the web application based on contents of the configuration file. A method is also described and claimed.

Claims

1. A system for building web applications in a client-server computing environment, comprising:

a server-side software engine comprising;

a database interface for a database of three-dimensional graphics objects; and

a web application configuration file including initialization settings for a server computer and design settings for a graphical user interface for a web application; and

a client-side software engine comprising;

a programming interface for developer plug-ins that render the three-dimensional graphics objects; and

a web application user interface manager that provides a user interface for the web application based on contents of the configuration file.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the database of three-dimensional graphics objects includes an object identifier for each graphics object stored therewithin, and wherein the object identifier includes a version number.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein the object identifier also includes a category identifier.

4. The system of claim 2 wherein the object identifier also includes a manufacturer identifier.

5. The system of claim 2 wherein the object identifier also includes a type identifier.

6. The system of claim 2 wherein the object identifier also includes an item identifier.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein said server-side software engine further comprises a web server extension for sending database data to a client computer.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein said server-side software engine further comprises:

an HTTP request decompressor; and

an HTTP response compressor.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein said client-side software engine further comprises:

an HTTP request compressor; and

an HTTP response decompressor.

10. The system of claim 1 wherein said client-side software engine further comprises a soft cache manager.

11. The system of claim 1 wherein said client-side software engine further comprises a hard cache manager.

12. The system of claim 1 wherein said client-side software engine further comprises an HTTP request coupler.

13. The system of claim 1 wherein said client-side software engine further comprises an HTTP request throttler to control HTTP requests so that the number of concurrent requests being processed by the server computer does not exceed a maximum permitted number of requests.

14. The system of claim 1 wherein said client-side software engine further comprises an HTTP duplicate header processor.

15. A method for building web applications in a client-server computing environment, comprising:

creating a database of three-dimensional graphics objects residing on a server computer;

programming a plug-in, for use by a client web application, for a client computer to render the three-dimensional graphics objects; and

specifying a configuration file, residing on the server computer, including initialization settings for a server computer and design settings for a graphical user interface for the web application.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein the database of three-dimensional graphics objects includes an object identifier for each graphics object stored therewithin, and wherein the object identifier includes a version number.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein the object identifier also includes a category identifier.

18. The method of claim 16 wherein the object identifier also includes a manufacturer identifier.

19. The method of claim 16 wherein the object identifier also includes a type identifier.

20. The method of claim 16 wherein the object identifier also includes an item identifier.

21. The method of claim 15 further comprising:

compressing HTTP requests, by the client computer;

decompressing HTTP responses, by the client computer;

compressing HTTP responses, by the server computer; and

decompressing HTTP requests, by the server computer.

22. The method of claim 15 further comprising managing a soft cache on the client computer.

23. The method of claim 15 further comprising managing a hard cache on the client computer.

24. The method of claim 15 further comprising coupling HTTP requests.

25. The method of claim 15 further comprising throttling HTTP requests, so that the number of concurrent requests being processed by the server computer does not exceed a maximum permitted number of requests.

26. The method of claim 15 further comprising processing, by the client computer, HTTP requests that have identical headers.