Previewing in live electronic commerce environment

• US 20070179892A1
• Filed: 01/27/2006
• Published: 08/02/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HCL Technologies Limited
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chan, Victor, Khusial, Darshanand, Vandergoot, Jacob
• Granted Patent: US 9,129,285 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/51
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 90/00 Systems or methods specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes, not involving significant data processing

Abstract

A method for previewing electronic commerce content in a live electronic commerce environment is provided. A preview mode is selected on a live electronic commerce server, which invokes a preview application. A unique user session associated with a user is created for the preview mode. A user request is verified to ensure that the request originates from the user associated with unique user session. The request is dispatched to an electronic commerce application on the live electronic server and the request is executed.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for previewing electronic commerce content in a live electronic commerce environment, the method comprising:

selecting a preview mode on a live electronic commerce server, wherein a preview application is invoked;

creating a unique user session associated with a user for the preview mode;

verifying that a user request originates from the user associated with the unique user session;

dispatching the request to an electronic commerce application on the live electronic commerce server; and

executing the request.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

verifying that the request is not an excluded request.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein invoking the preview application comprises opening a new browser window and invoking a universal resource locator.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the preview application performs pre-processing activities.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 4, wherein the pre-processing includes ensuring that the information served is real-time and not from the live electronic commerce server'"'"'s cache.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 4, wherein the pre-processing includes creating a preview context.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 6, wherein the preview context conveys state and environmental information related to the request to the electronic commerce application on the live electronic commerce server.

8. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the preview web application is protected by a firewall.

9. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein an adapter manages the unique user session and dispatches the request to the electronic commerce application on the live electronic commerce server.

10. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the unique user session differs from an original user session.

11. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium including computer usable program code for previewing electronic commerce content in a live electronic commerce environment, said computer program product comprising:

computer usable program code for selecting a preview mode on a live electronic commerce server, wherein a preview application is invoked;

computer usable program code for creating a unique user session associated with a user for the preview mode;

computer usable program code for verifying that a user request originates from the user associated with the unique user session;

computer usable program code for dispatching the request to an electronic commerce application on the live electronic commerce server; and

computer usable program code for executing the request.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising:

computer usable program code for verifying that the request is not an excluded request.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer usable program code for invoking the preview application comprises computer usable program code for opening a new browser window and computer usable program code for invoking a universal resource locator.

14. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the preview application executes computer usable program code for performing pre-processing activities.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the pre-processing includes creating a preview context.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the preview context conveys state and environmental information related to the request to the electronic commerce application on the live electronic commerce server.

20. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the preview application is configured to execute computer usable program code for performing pre-processing activities.

17. A data processing system for previewing electronic commerce content in a live electronic commerce environment, said data processing system comprising:

a storage device, wherein the storage device stores computer usable program code; and

a processor, wherein the processor executes the computer usable program code to select a preview mode on a live electronic commerce server, wherein a preview application is invoked;

to create a unique user session associated with a user for the preview mode;

to verify that a user request originates from the user associated with the unique user session;

to dispatch the request to an electronic commerce application on the live electronic commerce server; and

to execute the request.

18. The data processing system of claim 17, wherein the processor is further configured to execute computer useable program code for verifying that the request is not an excluded request.

19. The data processing system of claim 17, wherein executing the computer usable program code for invoking the preview application further comprises executing computer usable program code for opening a new browser window and executing computer usable program code for invoking a universal resource locator.