DATA FILE AND RULE DRIVEN SYNCHRONOUS OR ASYNCHRONOUS DOCUMENT GENERATION

• US 20160255174A1
• Filed: 05/09/2016
• Published: 09/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2009
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Sinha, Suchisubhra, Mistry, Ravi Ketankumar, Heisterberg, Richard H., Shivaswamy, Gurudatta Horantur, Belur, Rangaraj Keshavamurthy
• Application Number:
  US15/149,399
• Publication Number:
  US 20160255174A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/131 Fragmentation of text files, e.g. creating reusable text-blocks; Linking to fragments, e.g. using XInclude; Namespaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/151 Transformation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

A data file describes a document to be generated and stores an instruction to provide constituent data of the document via a network. The data file is accessed at a local computer, and the document is generated based on the data file. The generated document is communicated via the network to a remote computer. At the local computer, the instruction to provide constituent data is processed using a processor of the local computer. The constituent data is provided via the network to the remote computer as an update of the generated document.

Claims

1. A method of providing a refreshed portion of a webpage, the method comprising:

at a server computer, accessing a data file describing the webpage as including a plurality of portions, each of the plurality of portions being independently refreshable, the data file storing an instruction to provide the refreshed portion of the webpage via a network;

processing the instruction using a processor of the server computer;

generating a first portion of the webpage, the first portion being less than an entirety of the webpage; and

providing the first portion of the webpage as the refreshed portion of the webpage via the network to a client computer.