WWW client server dynamic interactive system method

• US 6,604,135 B1
• Filed: 08/06/1999
• Issued: 08/05/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Lagarde, Konrad Charles, Rogers, Richard Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Jaroenchonwanit, Bunjob
• Application Number:
  US09/369,625
• Time in Patent Office: 1,460 Days
• Field of Search: 709/202, 709/203, 709/217, 709/219, 709/317, 707/3, 707/10, 707/104
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing

Abstract

A control program agent at a Web server receives a browser request by way of a server side API and fulfills requests as an agent of the browser client. Program capsules are utilized by distributed integration solution (DIS) servers for retrieving, from a database gateway coupled to a plurality of database resources, requested information from multiple data bases, performing calculations, formatting, and other services on the information and reporting results to the web browser or to other locations, in a selected format, as in a display, fax, printer, and to customer installations.

Claims

1. A method of fulfilling requests received from a web browser user, the method comprising the steps of:

with a control program agent receiving data at a web server said data supplied by a client document as input parameters for said control program agent, and

with data provided by said client document, modified by said web browser user, said modified data supplying values to said control program agent, said values determined by an associated command file object, said object selected by said user for controlling the processes of fulfilling a Web request and for determining the nature of a resultant fulfillment of the request from information resources supplied from the,World Wide Web using an API set for receiving commands invoked by said client document.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein said fulfilling a request comprises the further steps of:

transmitting information from said information resources to a receiving client.

3. The method according to claim 2 wherein said receiving client is the client that supplied said client document.

4. The method according to claim 2 where said transmitting information step comprises transmitting any one of Browser displayable data, electronic mail information, voice response information and fax information.

5. A method of fulfilling requests of a web browser user, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving a document, via a server provided API set for receiving commands invoked by a client document, said document having data elements with values identifying data and command objects from said web browser user,

examining said document, after it has been received from said web browser user, to determine from the document provided by said web browser user, what the web browser user request is, from values provided by said document as data elements, and

determining from the document values, what document elements are data and what data elements are command objects identifiers; and

dynamically linking command objects identified by said command object identifiers, for execution of program steps identified by the command objects invoked from the document.

6. A method of fulfilling requests of a web browser user according to claim 5, wherein after said program steps have been executed providing by transmitting from via said API set a result to a client identified by said web browser user request.

7. A method of fulfilling requests of a web browser user according to claim 5, wherein said document initiates a web service agent action by a request from a web browser user transmitting to said API provided for receiving a document from a web browser client.

8. A method of fulfilling requests in a web server environment for the Internet or an intranet, the method comprising the steps of:

providing a web server with an API for receiving and transmitting documents having data and command data elements from a transmitting node of the Internet or an intranet; and

using a document transmitted to said web server having said API to activate a web control program agent to act as though it were a client browser using data collected from some other web gateway to access data from one or more databases and to collect the data and to send that data in a format sent by said web control program agent to a node on the web for further processing whereby after said processing is complete the data is provided to a user'"'"'s browser.

9. The method according to claim 8 wherein said user'"'"'s browser is the browser of the user that transmitted said document transmitted to said web server.

10. A method of fulfilling requests in a web server environment for the Internet or an intranet, the method comprising the steps of:

providing a web server having an API for receiving and transmitting documents having data and command data elements from a transmitting node of the Internet or an intranet,

using a document transmitted to said web server having said API to activate a web control program agent to act to execute data elements identified in the document received as transaction commands for said document transmitted to said web server to create transaction results which are transmitted as documents to another computing node in the environment for further processing.

11. A method according to claim 10 wherein a document request is transmitted from said web server to another node as if the web server were a client browser requesting access to data to be′

collected from a remote web database gateway to access data from one or more databases attached to one or more nodes and to collect the data for the request and to send that data for formatting by said web control program agent before the data is forwarded from said control program agent to another node on the web for further processing whereby after all processing is complete the data is provided to a user'"'"'s browser.

12. The method according to claim 11 wherein said user'"'"'s browser is the browser of the user that transmitted said document transmitted to said web server.