SIMULTANEOUS DATA PRESENTATION MECHANISM

• US 20140082076A1
• Filed: 09/10/2013
• Published: 03/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Richard George Hoptroff
• Original Assignee: Richard George Hoptroff
• Inventors: Hoptroff, Richard George
• Application Number:
  US14/022,426
• Publication Number:
  US 20140082076A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 13/00 Voting apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/18 Commands or executable codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network

Abstract

This invention relates to a method for broadcasting the same information from one server (101, FIG. 1) to users in multiple internet sessions such that it appears simultaneously on all browser screens (102, 103).

Claims

1. A method of sending a message between an Internet connectable server and client, the message to be displayed at a particular time, the method comprising the steps of:

the server receiving a first polling message from a first client;

the server, in response to receiving the first polling message, calculates a first time delay for a first message, and sends the first message to the first client, the first message including an indication of the first time delay; and

the first client, in response to receiving the first message, causes the first message to be displayed on expiry of the first time delay.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first time delay is calculated as the difference between a time to display the first message and a time of composition of the first message.

3. A method as claimed in either claim 1, wherein the first polling message includes an indication of the first client'"'"'s local time, and the first time delay is calculated as the difference between a time to display the first message and the indication of the first client'"'"'s local time.

4. A method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

the server receiving a second polling message from a second client;

the server, in response to receiving the second polling message, calculates a second time delay for a second message, and sends the second message to the second client, the second message including an indication of the second time delay;

the second client, in response to receiving the second message, causes the second message to be displayed on expiry of the second time delay.

5. A method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the second time delay is calculated as the difference between a time to display the second message and a time of composition of the second message.

6. A method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the second polling message includes an indication of the second client'"'"'s local time, and the second time delay is calculated as the difference between a time to display the second message and the indication of the second client'"'"'s local time.

7. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the client is a web browser.

8. An Internet connectable server, for sending a message to a client, the message to be displayed at a particular time, the Internet connectable server comprising

an input for receiving a first polling message from a first client;

a processor, configured for calculating a first time delay for a first message; and

an output for transmitting the first message, including an indication of the first time delay, to the first client.

9. An Internet connectable server as claimed in claim 8, wherein the first time delay is calculated as the difference between a time to display the first message and a time of composition of the first message.

10. An Internet connectable server as claimed in claim 8, wherein the first polling message includes an indication of the first client'"'"'s local time, and the first time delay is calculated as the difference between a time to display the first message and the indication of the first client'"'"'s local time.

11. An Internet connectable server as claimed in claim 8, wherein the processor is also for receiving a second polling message from a second client;

the processor is also configured for calculating a second time delay for a second message; and

the output is also for transmitting the second message, including an indication of the second time delay, to the second client.

12. An Internet connectable server as claimed in claim 11, wherein the second time delay is calculated as the difference between a time to display the second message and a time of composition of the second message.

13. An Internet connectable server as claimed in either claim 11, wherein the second polling message includes an indication of the second client'"'"'s local time, and the second time delay is calculated as the difference between a time to display the second message and the indication of the second client'"'"'s local time.

14. An Internet connectable client, for receiving a message from a server, the message to be displayed at a particular time, the Internet connectable client comprising

an output for transmitting a polling message to the server;

an input for receiving a message from the server, the message including a predetermined time delay; and

a processor, configured to cause the message to be displayed on expiry of the predetermined time delay.

15. An Internet connectable client as claimed in claim 14, wherein the polling message includes an indication of the client'"'"'s local time.

16. An Internet connectable client as claimed in claim 14, being a web browser.