Seamless reflection of model updates in a visual page for a visual channel in a composite services delivery system

• US 20070136442A1
• Filed: 12/08/2005
• Published: 06/14/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LinkedIn Corporation (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Moore, Victor, Palma, William, Mandalia, Baiju, Nusbickel, Wendi
• Granted Patent: US 7,818,432 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1043 Gateway controllers, e.g. media gateway control protocol [MGCP] controllers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for seamlessly updating a user interface element in a visible page for a visible channel of access to a common session in a composite services enablement environment can be provided. The method can include establishing a visible channel of access to a shared session shared commonly with other channels of access in the composite services enablement environment, rendering a visible page for the visible channel of access and a hidden page for the visible channel of access, reloading the hidden page at a determined interval to capture updates to a model for the shared session applied over the other channels of access, receiving in the hidden page a change in value for a user interface element reflecting an update for the model for the shared session, and causing the visible page to reflect the change in value for a corresponding user interface element in the visible page.

Claims

1. A composite service enabling data processing system comprising:

a plurality of channel servlets enabled to establish multiple different channels of access to a common session for a composite service;

a location registry comprising a table of entries associating the different channels of access with the common session for the composite service; and

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a model servlet configured for coupling to a model for the common session, for modifying state data in the model for the common session, and to synchronize views for each of the different channels of access to the common session responsive to changes detected in the model;

at least one of the views comprising a visible page coupled to a hidden page, the hidden page comprising both a refresh attribute specifying a refresh interval for the hidden page, and also a configuration to cause the visible page to update a user interface element in the visible page with a value provided by the hidden page responsive to the hidden page detecting a value change in the model for a user interface element in the hidden page corresponding to the user interface element in the visible page.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the hidden page further comprises an additional configuration to apply an update to the model responsive to receiving a request to update the model from the visible page.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising an additional hidden page comprising a configuration to apply an update to the model responsive to receiving a request to update the model from the visible page.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the visible page comprises a refresh script exposed to the hidden page and enabled to apply a value provided by the hidden page to a specified user interface element in the visible page.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the configuration of the hidden page comprises a complimentary update script exposed to the visible page and enabled to invoke the refresh script in the visible page responsive to detecting a value change in the model for a user interface element in the hidden page corresponding to the user interface element in the visible page.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein the additional configuration of the hidden page comprises a complimentary update script exposed to the visible page enabled to apply an update to the model responsive to receiving a request to update the model from the visible page.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the visible page comprises an update script enabled to call the complimentary update script in the hidden page responsive to receiving a request to update the model from within the visible page.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the visible page comprises an update script enabled to call the complimentary update script in the additional hidden page responsive to receiving a request to update the model from within the visible page.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the channel servlets comprise a voice enabler and voice server enabled to establish for the common session, a voice channel of access to the common session for the composite service.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the channel servlets and model servlet are disposed in an Internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) in a next generation networking (NGN) network.

11. A method for seamlessly updating a user interface element in a visible page for a visible channel of access to a common session in a composite services enablement environment, the method comprising:

establishing a visible channel of access to a shared session shared commonly with other channels of access in the composite services enablement environment;

rendering a visible page for the visible channel of access and a hidden page for the visible channel of access;

reloading the hidden page at a determined interval to capture updates to a model for the shared session applied over the other channels of access;

receiving in the hidden page a change in value for a user interface element reflecting an update for the model for the shared session; and

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causing the visible page to reflect the change in value for a corresponding user interface element in the visible page.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein rendering a visible page for the visible channel of access and a hidden page for the visible channel of access, comprises:

rendering a form with a plurality of fields in the visible page;

configuring the visible page with a refresh script enabled to apply a value change to a selected one of the fields;

configuring the hidden page to refresh at a specified interval; and

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further configuring the hidden page with a complimentary refresh script enabled to call the refresh script in the visible page to apply a value change to the selected one of the fields corresponding to a field in the hidden page.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving in the visible page a request to update the model for the shared session; and

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causing the hidden page to update the model for the shared session.

14. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer usable program code for seamlessly updating a user interface element in a visible page for a visible channel of access to a common session in a composite services enablement environment, the computer program product including:

computer usable program code for establishing a visible channel of access to a shared session shared commonly with other channels of access in the composite services enablement environment;

computer usable program code for rendering a visible page for the visible channel of access and a hidden page for the visible channel of access;

computer usable program code for reloading the hidden page at a determined interval to capture updates to a model for the shared session applied over the other channels of access;

computer usable program code for receiving in the hidden page a change in value for a user interface element reflecting an update for the model for the shared session; and

, computer usable program code for causing the visible page to reflect the change in value for a corresponding user interface element in the visible page.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the computer usable program code for rendering a visible page for the visible channel of access and a hidden page for the visible channel of access, comprises:

computer usable program code for rendering a form with a plurality of fields in the visible page;

computer usable program code for configuring the visible page with a refresh script enabled to apply a value change to a selected one of the fields;

computer usable program code for configuring the hidden page to refresh at a specified interval; and

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computer usable program code for further configuring the hidden page with a complimentary refresh script enabled to call the refresh script in the visible page to apply a value change to the selected one of the fields corresponding to a field in the hidden page.

16. The computer program product of claim 14, further comprising:

computer usable program code for receiving in the visible page a request to update the model for the shared session; and

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computer usable program code for causing the hidden page to update the model for the shared session.