Web Interface for Providing System-Status On-Demand

• US 20090158165A1
• Filed: 12/14/2007
• Published: 06/18/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: James Arthur Fisher, Raymond Anthony James, Sue Ann Erstad, Vickie Lynn Brewer, William Henry Travis
• Original Assignee: James Arthur Fisher, Raymond Anthony James, Sue Ann Erstad, Vickie Lynn Brewer, William Henry Travis
• Inventors: James, Raymond Anthony, Erstad, Sue Ann, Travis, William Henry, Fisher, James Arthur, Brewer, Vickie Lynn
• Granted Patent: US 8,020,107 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/744
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/328 Computer systems status display G06F11/327 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

An Internet web application interfaces to a machine to give users information about the status of the machine. The information on the status of the machine is constantly changing. This design only dynamically builds a web page when the page is requested for viewing. Once built, the page is retained so that the next time it is requested, if the information it contains has not changed, the page can be served without having to be rebuilt. If the information has changed, the design will not update the page until the page has been requested. In addition, the page is only built in the human language requested.

Claims

20. A data processing system for displaying machine status information comprising:

a machine configured to maintain status data specifying a status of said machine;

a web server coupled to said machine via a web interface, wherein said web server comprises

means for receiving a request from a user to view a web page comprising said machine status information,

means for causing said web page to be displayed to said user in response to said request in order to reduce an amount of processing work required by said machine, wherein

said means for said causing comprises

means for generating a new markup language file in response to a determination that said status data has been previously updated, and

means for transmitting said new markup language file to said user

said request comprises data specifying a requested human language, and

said means for generating comprises means for generating said new markup language file in only said requested human language.