APPLICATION WINDOW CLOSURE IN RESPONSE TO EVENT IN PARENT WINDOW

• US 20070266320A1
• Filed: 07/25/2007
• Published: 11/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated (Kyndryl Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Christopher Whyley, Jonathan Phillips, Michael Adams
• Inventors: Phillips, Jonathan, Adams, Michael, Whyley, Christopher
• Granted Patent: US 9,223,588 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/700
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

A method for closing a child application window of a parent window. An indicator is instantiated in data loaded into the parent window, followed by performance of a loop. In each iteration of the loop: (a) if it is ascertained that the data currently loaded into the parent window includes the indicator, then pausing of a first number of seconds is followed by looping back to perform the next iteration, otherwise pausing of a second number of seconds is followed by determining whether the data currently loaded into the parent window includes the indicator; (b) if it is determined that the data currently loaded into the parent window includes the indicator, then pausing of the first number of seconds is followed by looping back to perform the next iteration, otherwise the loop is exited and the child application window is closed during a final iteration.

Claims

1. A method for closing a child application window of a parent window, said method comprising:

instantiating an indicator in data loaded into the parent window;

after said instantiating the indicator, performing a loop, wherein each iteration of the loop comprises;

ascertaining whether the data currently loaded into the parent window comprises the indicator;

if said ascertaining ascertains that the data currently loaded into the parent window comprises the indicator then pausing a first number of seconds followed by looping back to said ascertaining to perform the next iteration of the loop, otherwise pausing a second number of seconds followed by determining whether the data currently loaded into the parent window includes the indicator;

if said determining determines that the data currently loaded into the parent window comprises the indicator then pausing the first number of seconds followed by looping back to said ascertaining to perform the next iteration of the loop, otherwise exiting the loop followed by closing the child application window,

wherein during a final iteration of the loop, said exiting the loop followed by said closing the child application window is performed.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein during a first iteration of the loop said ascertaining ascertains that the data currently loaded into the parent window comprises the indicator.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein during a first iteration of the loop said ascertaining ascertains that the data currently loaded into the parent window does not comprise the indicator.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein during a first iteration of the loop the parent window is not closed and is being refreshed, which causes said ascertaining to not ascertain that the indicator is comprised by the data currently loaded into the parent window and further causes said determining, after pausing the second number of seconds, to determine that the indicator is comprised by the data currently loaded into the parent window, resulting in not in not closing the child application window during the first iteration.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein during the final iteration of the loop the parent window is closed which causes said ascertaining to not ascertain that the indicator is comprised by the data currently loaded into the parent window and further causes said determining, after pausing the second number of seconds, to determine that the indicator is not comprised by the data currently loaded into the parent window, resulting in closing the child application window during the final iteration.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein during the final iteration of the loop the parent window is closed in response to an event associated with the parent window.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the parent window is associated with a portal home page of a parent application, and wherein the event comprises navigation to a resource outside of an environment of the parent application.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the parent window is associated with a portal home page of a parent application, and wherein said launching the child application window is performed by selecting a text link from the portal homepage.

9. The method of claim 1,

wherein the method further comprises prior to said performing the loop:

calling an initial function configured to check for the existence of the indicator in the data currently loaded into the parent window; and

wherein said ascertaining, said determining, said pausing the first number of seconds, and said pausing the second number of seconds are performed by the initial function.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein a <

body>

tag in a html page in the child application window comprises an onLoad( ) function, and wherein said calling the initial function is performed by the onLoad( ) function.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the child application window operates in a network environment.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the parent window is a finance application window pertaining to a finance application, and wherein the child application window is a personal bank accounts window pertaining to bank accounts associated with the finance application.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the parent window is a personal bank accounts window pertaining to bank accounts associated with a finance application, and wherein the child application window is a current account window pertaining to a current bank account of the bank accounts.

14. A computer program product comprising computer program code stored on a computer readable storage medium, which when executed on a computer, the program code embodied therein performs the method of claim 1.

15. A system comprising a computer and a readable storage medium, said storage medium containing computer program code that when executed on the computer performs the method of claim 1.