Framework for providing remote processing of a graphical user interface

• US 20050144174A1
• Filed: 06/15/2004
• Published: 06/30/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. (JP Morgan Chase & Co)
• Original Assignee: JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. (JP Morgan Chase & Co)
• Inventors: Davey, Matthew M., Carrie, Carl, Pesenson, Leonid
• Application Number:
  US10/868,494
• Publication Number:
  US 20050144174A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131

Abstract

A portion of an application program that would ordinarily be processed on the client side of a client-server computer network can be processed remotely on the server. Under this arrangement, the entire Model portion of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm can be executed on the server. In general, the portion remaining on the client need only send Model-modifying messages to the server. A declarative programming language is used to define the desired implementation.

Claims

1. A system for providing a remote graphical user interface framework in a client-server network, comprising:

a server that executes a Model portion of an application program;

a client that executes a View portion of the application program;

wherein the client sends Model-modifying messages to the Model portion via the client-server network and the server responds by sending View-modifying messages to the client via the client-server network.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the server further includes a Controller portion of the application program.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the Model-modifying messages are associated with events that alter the state of the Model.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein a declarative programming language defines the Model portion and the View portion.

5. A method for providing remote processing of a graphical user interface in a client-server network, comprising the steps of:

providing a Model portion of an application program entirely on a server;

providing a View portion of the application program entirely on a client;

wherein the client sends Model-modifying messages to the Model portion on the server and the server responds by sending View-modifying messages to the client.

6. The method of claim 5, further including the step of providing a Controller portion of the application program on the server.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the Model-modifying messages are associated with events that alter the state of the Model.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein a declarative programming language defines the Model portion and the View portion.

9. A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable on the machine to perform method steps for providing a remote graphical user interface in framework in a client-server network, the method steps comprising:

providing a Model portion of an application program entirely on a server;

providing a View portion of the application program entirely on a client;

wherein the client sends Model-modifying messages to the Model portion on the server and the server responds by sending View-modifying messages to the client.