System and method for controlling web pages

• US 20040215613A1
• Filed: 04/17/2003
• Published: 10/28/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Venkataraman, Manikandan, Nayak, Sundeep Anand, Miranda, Jose Mateo
• Granted Patent: US 7,814,413 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/154 Tree transformation for tree-structured or markup documents, e.g. XSLT, XSL-FO or stylesheets
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99934 Query formulation, input preparation, or translation

Abstract

In one embodiment, a system for controlling content on a web page is provided. A display map is configured to identify selected content to be displayed to a selected position within one or more web pages. A web page control logic is configured to display content to one or more web pages based on the display mapping where the displayed content can be reorganized by modifying the display mapping without modifying the web page control logic.

Claims

1. A system for controlling content on a web page, the system comprising:

a display map configured to identify selected content to be displayed to a selected position within one or more web pages; and

a web page control logic configured to display content to one or more web pages based on the display mapping, where the displayed content can be re-organized by modifying the display mapping without modifying the web page control logic.

2. The system as set forth in claim 1 where the display map is embodied as a data table that is modifiable in order to change the displayed content to the one or more web pages without re-configuring the web page control logic.

3. The system as set forth in claim 1 where the web page control logic is embodied as executable software configured to read data from the display map.

4. The system as set forth in claim 1 where the content includes data entry fields and associated labels.

5. The system as set forth in claim 4 further including a storage map configured to identify location information for storing data received through the data entry fields.

6. The system as set forth in claim 5 wherein the web page control logic includes query generator logic configured to dynamically generate one or more queries to retrieve previously stored data based on the location information of the storage map.

7. The system as set forth in claim 1 further including a content database, and where the web page control logic is configured to retrieve the selected content from the content database based on the display map.

8. A system for controlling data entry pages, the system comprising:

a content database configured to contain one or more data entry questions;

a display mapping table configured to map a display list of data entry questions from the content database to the data entry pages; and

an application server configured to generate the data entry pages with data entry questions based on the display list, and configured to receive a corresponding answer for each of the data entry questions; and

a storage mapping table configured to associate each of the data entry questions and the corresponding answers to a storage location, the application server configured to store and retrieve the corresponding answers based on the storage mapping table.

9. The system as set forth in claim 8 wherein the display mapping table is further configured to store, for each of the data entry questions in the display list, a location identifier that associates the data entry questions to a location within the data entry pages.

10. The system as set forth in claim 8 wherein the application server further includes a query generator logic configured to generate one or more queries to retrieve one or more stored answers based on the storage mapping table.

11. The system as set forth in claim 8 wherein the application server includes means for displaying the data entry questions identified by the display list.

12. An article of manufacture embodied in a computer-readable medium for use in a computer system, the article of manufacture comprising:

first computer executable instructions for causing a computer to display data entry fields to one or more web pages in accordance with a display mapping, the data entry fields being selected from a database of data entry fields; and

second computer executable instructions for causing a computer to store data received through the data entry fields in accordance with a storage mapping that is configured to identify a storage location for each of the data entry fields.

13. The article of manufacture as set forth in claim 12 further including third computer executable instructions for causing a computer to dynamically generate one or more queries to retrieve stored data based on the storage mapping.

14. The article of manufacture as set forth in claim 12 wherein the first computer executable instructions include instructions for causing a computer to read the display mapping and to retrieve the data entry fields from the database of data entry fields.

15. The article of manufacture as set forth in claim 12 wherein the display mapping is a data table and, the first computer executable instructions are configured to read from the data table.

16. The article of manufacture as set forth in claim 12 wherein the storage mapping is a data table and, the second computer executable instructions are configured to read from the data table to determine where to store the data received through the data entry fields.

17. A method of configuring one or more web pages with data entry questions, the method comprising the steps of:

storing a database of data entry questions;

defining a display table that identifies selected data entry questions from the database of data entry questions;

configuring the one or more web pages by displaying the selected data entry questions identified by the display table; and

re-configuring the one or more web pages by modifying the display table.

18. The method of configuring as set forth in claim 17 further including associating position data with each of the selected data entry questions in the display table, the position data identifying where each of the selected data entry questions are to be displayed on the one or more web pages.

19. The method of configuring as set forth in claim 18 further including identifying a page number as a position data.

20. The method of configuring as set forth in claim 18 wherein the re-configuring step includes changing the position data for one or more selected data entry questions.

21. The method of configuring as set forth in claim 17 wherein the modifying step includes adding one or more selected data entry questions to the display table.

22. The method of configuring as set forth in claim 17 wherein the configuring step includes providing an executable program configured to display the selected data entry questions on the one or more web pages in accordance with the display table.

23. The method of configuring as set forth in claim 17 further including storing data received for a selected data entry question at a storage location that is defined by a data storage mapping table configured to associate each of the selected data entry questions with a storage location.

24. The method of configuring as set forth in claim 23 further including generating a query to retrieve data associated with the selected data entry question based on the storage location from the data storage table.