Serving signals
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Abstract
Output signals are served from a serving device to a plurality of browsing devices connected to a network. The output signals represent commands executable by each browsable device so as to display viewable data in accordance with specified page formatting. Requests from browsing clients are identified which contain information relating to the data itself and the display format for the data. The data is read and processed so as to combine a representation of the viewable data with executable instructions. The signals are then supplied to requesting browsing devices, after effectively being assembled as a real time on-line process.
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38 Claims
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21. A method of serving output signals from a serving device to a plurality of browsing client devices connected via a network to the serving device, wherein said output signals represent commands executable by said browsing client devices for displaying pages of human viewable data, said method comprising:
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receiving a request from a browsing device in the form of a URL (uniform resource locator) that identifies human viewable data, said URL including a check sum;
determining the validity of said check sum within said received URL; and
serving output signals to the requesting browsing client device, such that;
(a) when a URL is received that identifies said human viewable data and includes a valid check sum, first signals are processed which represent human viewable data;
second signals are processed which represent formatting data that specifies locations on a page of said human viewable data when displayed; and
said first signals and said second signals are processed to produce first output signals that are served to the requesting browsing client device; and
(b) when a URL is received that identifies said human viewable data and includes an invalid check sum, second output signals (that are different from said first output signals) are served to the requesting browsing client device. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A method of serving HTML (hypertext mark-up language) commands from a serving station to a plurality of browsing client devices connected by the internet to the serving station, such that said HTML commands are executable by said browsing client devices for generating structured pages of human viewable data, said method comprising:
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receiving requests in the form of URLs (uniform resource locators) from browsing devices for human viewable data, each of said URLs including a check sum, determining the validity of check sums within received URLs, and serving HTML commands to the requesting browsing devices dependent upon the validity of user identifiers, such that;
(a) when a URL (uniform resource locator) requests specific human viewable data and includes a valid check sum, first signals representing human viewable data and second signals representing a selected display structure are processed to produce HTML commands that are served to the requesting browsing client device; and
(b) when a URL requests the same specified human viewable data and includes an invalid check sum, different HTML commands are served to the requesting browsing client device. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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38. A method of serving HTML (hypertext mark-up language) commands from a serving station to a plurality of browsing client devices connected by the internet to the serving station, such that said HTML commands are executed by said browsing client devices to generate structured pages of human viewable data, said method comprising the steps of:
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receiving requests in the form of URLs (uniform resource locators) from browsing devices for human viewable data, each of said URLs including a check sum and user identification data, determining the validity of check sums within received URLs, determining the validity of user identification data within received URLs, and serving HTML commands to the requesting browsing devices dependent upon the validity of check sums and the validity of user identification data, such that (a) when a URL (uniform resource locator) requests specified human viewable data and includes a valid check sum and valid user identification data, first signals representing human viewable data and second signals representing a selected display structure are processed to produce HTML commands that are served to the requesting browsing client device; and
(b) when a URL requests the same specified human viewable data and includes an invalid check sum or invalid user identification data, different HTML commands are served to the requesting browsing client device.
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