SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AND HANDLING EXECUTABLE WEB CONTENT

• US 20100005527A1
• Filed: 01/11/2006
• Published: 01/07/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2005
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: RealNetworks Asia Pacific Co., Ltd. (RealNetworks, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Realnetworks Asia Pacific Company Limited
• Inventors: JEON, Yun Ho
• Application Number:
  US11/813,192
• Publication Number:
  US 20100005527A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/22
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/547 Remote procedure calls [RPC]; Web services

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system for providing executable web content to a terminal. The present invention provides a system comprising a server, which provides an executable web content comprising a declarative language part in declarative language and a non-declarative part, and a gateway, which receives the executable web content from the server, converts it into a format executable in a web browser of the terminal, and transmits the converted content to the terminal.

Claims

1. A system for providing executable web content, wherein the system comprises:

a server that provides executable web content comprising a declarative language part in declarative language and a non-declarative part; and

a gateway that receives the executable web content from the server, converts it into a format executable in a web browser of a terminal, and transmits the converted content to the terminal.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the terminal is a wireless communication terminal, and the web content is wireless web content.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the web server and the gateway are connected via wired network, and the gateway is connected to the terminal via wireless network.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein

the terminal comprises a wireless web browser,

the gateway receives a request for a web content from the wireless web browser via wireless network, and requests the web content to the server via wired network,

the web content includes one or more files,

the request for the web content to the server includes a request for the one or more files, and

the gateway transmits the one or more files included in the web content, which is received from the server in response to the request to the server, to the terminal in one transaction.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein

the one or more file included in the web content comprises a web content file and at least one resource file, and

the request for the web content comprises a request for web content file and a request for the at least one resource file.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the web content comprises at least one of a static file, a dynamically generated file, a source code of procedural codes, an executable binary file and a multimedia file.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the non-declarative part comprises procedural code, and

the gateway comprises means for converting the declarative language part to procedural code, and means for compiling the procedural code and converting it into an executable file.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the non-declarative part comprises procedural code, and the gateway comprises means for compiling the declarative language part, means for compiling the procedural code, and means for merging the result of compiling the declarative language part and the result of compiling the procedural code and thereby generating an executable file.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the gateway comprises means for detecting whether a function violating a security policy is included in the web content that has been converted into a format executable in the web browser of the terminal.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein, if a file having a function violating the security policy is included in the web content, the gateway comprises means for preventing transmitting the file to the terminal.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein, if a file having a function violating the security policy is included in the web content, the gateway comprises means for obtaining approval from a terminal user before transmitting the file to the terminal.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein, if a file having a function violating the security policy is included in the web content, the gateway comprises means for inserting code into the file, wherein the code causes a predetermined action to be performed at runtime, and the predetermined action is determined by a predetermined security policy of the system.

13. A system for providing executable web content to a terminal, wherein the system comprises:

a server, which provides executable web content, and

a gateway, which receives the executable web content from the server, converts it into a format executable in a web browser of the terminal, and transmits the converted content to the terminal,

wherein the web content comprises at least one of a static file, a dynamically generated file, a source code of procedural code, an executable binary file and a multimedia file, and

the gateway can compile both declarative language and procedural code.

14. The system of claim 6 or 13, wherein the source code of the procedural code comprises Java code, and the executable binary file comprises jar file.

15. A gateway that receives an executable web content from a server and converts it into a format executable in a web browser of a terminal, wherein the web content comprises at least one of a static file, a dynamically generated file, a source code of procedural code, an executable binary file and a multimedia file, and the gateway comprises a complier for compiling declarative language and procedural code and converting into an executable file.

16. The gateway of claim 15, wherein the terminal is a wireless communication terminal, and the web content is wireless web content.

17. The gateway of claim 15, wherein the gateway communicates with the web server via wired network, and the gateway communicates with the terminal via wireless network.

18. The gateway of claim 17, wherein

the terminal comprises a wireless web browser,

the gateway receives a request for the web content from the wireless web browser via wireless network, and requests the web content to the server via wired network,

the web content comprises one more files,

the request for the web content to the server comprises a request for at least a part of the one or more files, and

the gateway transmits the one or more files included in the web content to the terminal in one transaction.

19. The gateway of claim 18, wherein

the one or more files included in the web content comprises a web content file and resource files, and

the request for the web content comprises a request for web content file and a request for resource files.

20. The gateway of claim 15, wherein the source code of the procedural code comprises Java code, and the executable binary file comprises jar file.

21. The gateway of claim 15, comprising:

a converter for converting declarative language part into procedural code;

a complier for compiling the procedural code;

a handler for analyzing the executable binary file received from the web server and, if an external file is referenced, fetching the external file; and

a security manager for determining whether a function causing a security problem is included in the web content received from the web server.

22. The gateway of claim 15, comprising means for detecting whether a function violating a security policy is included in the web content that has been converted into a format executable in the web browser of the terminal.

23. The gateway of claim 22, wherein, if a file having a function violating the security policy is included in the web content, the gateway does not transmit the file to the terminal.

24. The gateway of claim 22, wherein, if a file having a function violating the security policy is included in the web content, the gateway receives approval from a terminal user before transmitting the file to the terminal.

25. The gateway of claim 22, wherein, if a file having a function violating the security policy is included in the web content, the gateway inserts code into the file, wherein the code causes certain action to be performed at runtime, and the certain action is determined by a predetermined security policy of the system.

26. The gateway of claim 17, wherein,

the terminal comprises a wireless web browser,

a web content comprises at least one file,

the gateway receives a request for a web content from the wireless web browser via wireless network,

the request for the web content comprises a name and a last modified time information of the file that is already cached in the browser,

the gateway requests the web content to the server via wired network, the request for the web content to the server comprises a request for the at least one file, and

the gateway receives at least one file included in the web content, which is received from the server in response to the request to the server, compares with the name and last modified time information of the cached file, and transmits only the file which has been modified from the cached file or has been newly added to the terminal.

27. A computer storage media for storing a web browser for browsing an executable web content, wherein the web browser receives and executes web content in binary executable code format.

28. A terminal comprising a web browser for browsing an executable web content, wherein the web browser receives and executes web content in binary executable code format.

29. The terminal of claim 28, wherein

the web content comprises at least one file, and the at least one file comprises a shared resource file which is referenced by web content, and

the terminal comprises a cache, and

when the shared resource file is cached in the cache, a reference count representing how many files reference the shared resource file are saved together.

30. The terminal of claim 29, wherein, if the terminal receives web content comprising a file of a version newer than a cached version of the cached shared resource file, the shared resource file of the newer version is saved in the cache, and the reference count of the existing cached shared resource file is decreased by 1.

31. The terminal of claim 30, wherein, if the reference count after the decrease is 0, the existing cached shared resource file is deleted.