METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR IMMEDIATE POSTING OF CHANGES IN A CLIENT SERVER ENVIRONMENT

• US 20120150943A1
• Filed: 06/14/2011
• Published: 06/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alex Goldstein, Anil Mukundan, John Coker, Thomas M. Rothwein
• Original Assignee: Alex Goldstein, Anil Mukundan, John Coker, Thomas M. Rothwein
• Inventors: Mukundan, Anil, Coker, John, Rothwein, Thomas M., Goldstein, Alex
• Granted Patent: US 9,195,523 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/545 Gui
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/465 Distributed object oriented systems remote method invocation [RMI] G06F9/548
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/201 Price look-up processing, e.g. updating
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]

Abstract

According to one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided in which a first field and a second field of a data record are displayed to a user using a client program, the second field having one or more attributes that are dependent upon the value of the first field. In response to a detection that the value of the first field has changed, the value of the first field is sent to a server program. The server program is configured to process the change in value of the first field and determine corresponding changes with respect to the one or more attributes of the second field. The corresponding changes with respect to the one or more attributes of the second field are sent from the server program to the client program.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

displaying a first field and a second field of a data record to a user using a client program, the second field having one or more attributes that are dependent upon the value of the first field;

in response to a detection that the value of the first field has changed, sending the value of the first field to a server program, the server program being configured to process the change in value of the first field and determine corresponding changes with respect to the one or more attributes of the second field; and

sending the corresponding changes with respect to the one or more attributes of the second field from the server program to the client program.

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