Methods and systems for displaying multiple unique dynamic messages on a user interface

• US 20070261037A1
• Filed: 05/02/2006
• Published: 11/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Bendapudi, Jyotsna
• Granted Patent: US 7,681,175 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/136
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

A computer-implemented method of simultaneously providing a plurality of unique and dynamic messages on a user interface page, may include steps of from a first user interface page, accepting a plurality of job requests; building a first software object, the first software object having a plurality of rows, each of the plurality of job requests and corresponding job request values being stored in a corresponding one of the plurality of rows; forwarding the first software object to a second user interface page and, before rendering the second user interface page, parsing the first software object and framing a dynamic message for each row of the first software object, each dynamic message including a unique URL formed of at least one of the job request values appended to a standard format URL and to a static message; building a second software object, the second software object including a row for each of the framed dynamic messages, each row including the static message and the unique URL of the corresponding dynamic message; adding the second software object to a session context, the session context being persistent across the first and second user interface pages; retrieving the second software object from the session context, unpacking the second software object, and rendering the second user interface page and displaying plurality of dynamic messages therein using the static message and the unique URL stored in each of the rows of the second software object.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of simultaneously providing a plurality of unique and dynamic messages on a user interface page, comprising the steps of:

from a first user interface page, accepting a plurality of job requests;

building a first software object, the first software object having a plurality of rows, each of the plurality of job requests and corresponding job request values being stored in a corresponding one of the plurality of rows;

forwarding the first software object to a second user interface page and, before rendering the second user interface page,

parsing the first software object and framing a dynamic message for each row of the first software object, each dynamic message including a unique URL formed of at least one of the job request values appended to a standard format URL and to a static message;

building a second software object, the second software object including a row for each of the framed dynamic messages, each row including the static message and the unique URL of the corresponding dynamic message;

adding the second software object to a session context, the session context being persistent across the first and second user interface pages;

retrieving the second software object from the session context, unpacking the second software object, and

rendering the second user interface page and displaying plurality of dynamic messages therein using the static message and the unique URL stored in each of the rows of the second software object.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first software object building step is carried out with the first software object including a hash map object.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the second software object building step is carried out with the second software object including a vector object.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first and second software objects include instances of classes of the JAVA programming language.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the unique URL of each dynamic message in the parsing step points to a third user interface page that is configured to display details of one of the plurality of job requests.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the unique URL includes a unique job request value appended to the standard format URL and to the static message.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the unique job request value includes a unique job identifier.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first software object building step is carried out with the first software object including formatting tags to control a manner in which each of the dynamic messages are to be rendered in the second user interface page.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further including displaying the plurality of dynamic messages in a single message box on the second user interface page.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the static message includes plain text.

11. A machine-readable medium having data stored thereon representing sequences of instructions which, when executed by a computing device, causes the computing device to simultaneously provide a plurality of unique and dynamic messages on a user interface page, by performing the steps of:

from a first user interface page, accepting a plurality of job requests;

building a first software object, the first software object having a plurality of rows, each of the plurality of job requests and corresponding job request values being stored in a corresponding one of the plurality of rows;

forwarding the first software object to a second user interface page and, before rendering the second user interface page,

parsing the first software object and framing a dynamic message for each row of the first software object, each dynamic message including a unique URL formed of at least one of the job request values appended to a standard format URL and to a static message;

building a second software object, the second software object including a row for each of the framed dynamic messages, each row including the static message and the unique URL of the corresponding dynamic message;

adding the second software object to a session context, the session context being persistent across the first and second user interface pages;

retrieving the second software object from the session context, unpacking the second software object, and

rendering the second user interface page and displaying plurality of dynamic messages therein using the static message and the unique URL stored in each of the rows of the second software object.

12. A computer system for simultaneously providing a plurality of unique and dynamic messages on a user interface page, the computer system comprising:

at least one processor;

at least one data storage device coupled to the at least one processor;

a plurality of processes spawned by said at least one processor, the processes including processing logic for;

from a first user interface page, accepting a plurality of job requests;

building a first software object, the first software object having a plurality of rows, each of the plurality of job requests and corresponding job request values being stored in a corresponding one of the plurality of rows;

forwarding the first software object to a second user interface page and, before rendering the second user interface page,

parsing the first software object and framing a dynamic message for each row of the first software object, each dynamic message including a unique URL formed of at least one of the job request values appended to a standard format URL and to a static message;

building a second software object, the second software object including a row for each of the framed dynamic messages, each row including the static message and the unique URL of the corresponding dynamic message;

adding the second software object to a session context, the session context being persistent across the first and second user interface pages;

retrieving the second software object from the session context, unpacking the second software object, and

rendering the second user interface page and displaying plurality of dynamic messages therein using the static message and the unique URL stored in each of the rows of the second software object.