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Web document based graphical user interface

  • US 5,802,530 A
  • Filed: 07/01/1996
  • Issued: 09/01/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/01/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A Web document based GUI (graphical user interface) for use on a client computer that is networked with server computers, the GUI comprising:

  • GUI Web documents that collectively enable a user of the client computer to initiate specific operations which are performed on the client computer and collectively define an entire application which is executed on the client computer, each of the GUI Web documents being located at the client computer or one of the server computers and comprising;

    one or more links, each of the one or more links providing a link to a corresponding one of the GUI Web documents when (a) the link is selected by the user with the client computer and (b) while the link is being displayed on the client computer;

    one or more applets, each of the one or more applets (a) generating a corresponding interactive image that is displayed on the client computer when the applet is executed and (b) being invoked to perform a corresponding one of the specific operations when the user acts on the corresponding interactive image with the client computer; and

    a Web browser that runs on the client computer and that, each time a selected one of the one or more links of a displayed one of the GUI Web documents has been selected by the user with the client computer, (a) loads, if not already loaded, the corresponding GUI Web document in the client computer, (b) displays the corresponding GUI Web document on the client computer by (i) executing each of the one or more applets of the corresponding GUI Web document on the client computer and displaying the corresponding interactive image on the client computer, and (ii) displaying the one or more links of the corresponding GUI Web document on the client computer, and (c) invokes one of the one or more applets of the corresponding GUI Web document to perform the corresponding specific operation when the user acts on the corresponding interactive image with the client computer.

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