System and method of merging static data in web pages

• US 6,606,525 B1
• Filed: 12/27/1999
• Issued: 08/12/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ramamurthy, Anupama, Muthuswamy, Sivakumar
• Primary Examiner(s): PATEL, RAMESH B
• Application Number:
  US09/472,285
• Time in Patent Office: 1,324 Days
• Field of Search: 700/2, 700/3, 700/5, 700/17, 700/19, 700/20, 700/52, 700/53, 700/55, 700/73, 707/2-4, 707/10, 707/104.1, 707/513, 707/501.1, 707/515, 707/6, 709/201-203, 709/217-225, 709/229, 709/230, 709/238, 709/310
• US Class Current: 700/52
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99936 Pattern matching access
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

A system and method for merging static data and dynamic data downloaded to a browser from a network site of a network, preferably being a website on the Internet. The system includes at least one server in communication with the network, and the server hosts one or more network sites that include static data and dynamic data. The system further includes at least one user computer in communication with the network with a browser on the user computer that selectively interacts with network sites and selectively downloads the static data and dynamic data from the interacted network site. The user computer stores the static data and dynamic data in a local data store and recognizes the static data and dynamic data, preferably through marking with pointers, and upon refreshing of the downloaded data being requested, the user computer downloads dynamic data from the network site. The system provides a method including the steps of downloading static and dynamic data to the user computer from an interacted network site, recognizing the static data and dynamic data, storing the static data and dynamic data in a local data store of the user computer, requesting the refreshing of all downloaded data on the user computer from the network site, and downloading the dynamic data from the network site.

Claims

1. A system for merging static data and dynamic data downloaded from a network site on a network, the system comprising:

at least one server in communication with the network, the server hosting one or more network sites where one or more of the network sites includes static data and dynamic data; and

at least one user computer in communication with the network, the user computer including a browser that selectively interacts with the network sites, the user computer further selectively downloading the static data and dynamic data from an interacted network site, the user computer storing and recognizing the static data and dynamic data in a local data store of the computer, and upon refreshing of the downloaded data being requested, the user computer initiating a request to the at least one server to transmit only the dynamic data from the network site.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the network is the Internet; and

the static data and dynamic data are from a web page of a web site.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the user computer further displays the web page of the website on the browser of the user computer.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the user computer further marks the static data and dynamic data with pointers prior to storing the data in a local data store.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the data store of the user computer is a local cache.

6. The system of claim 3, wherein the static data and dynamic data are layered on the web page of the web site, and upon refreshing of the downloaded data being requested, the user computer downloads the dynamic layer of the web page of the website on the Internet.

7. The system of claim 4, wherein the user computer compares the marked data in the data store to determine the dynamic data to be downloaded from the network site to refresh the downloaded static data.

8. A method for merging static data and dynamic data downloaded from the network site of a network, the network having at least one server in communication therewith, the server hosting one or more network sites where one or more network sites includes static data and dynamic data, and the network further having at least one user computer in communication therewith, the user computer including a browser that selectively interacts with the network sites, the method comprising the steps of:

downloading static data and dynamic data to the user computer from an interactive network site;

recognizing the static data and dynamic data by the user computer;

the user computer storing the static data and dynamic data in a local data store of the user computer;

requesting the refreshing of all downloaded data on the user computer from the network site;

initiating a request from the user computer to the at least one server to transmit only the dynamic data from the network site; and

downloading the dynamic data from the network site to the user computer.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein:

the network is the Internet; and

the step of downloading static and dynamic data to the user computer from an interacted network site comprises downloading static and dynamic data from a web page of a web site.

10. The method of claim 9, further including the step of merging the downloaded dynamic data with the static data stored in the local data store of the user computer to display the web page on the browser of the user computer.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the step of recognizing the static data and dynamic data comprises marking the static data and dynamic data with pointers.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the step of storing the static data and dynamic data in a local data store of the user computer is storing the static data and dynamic data in a local cache of the user computer.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the static data and dynamic data are layered on the website, and the step of downloading the dynamic data from the web site after requesting the reloading of all downloaded data is downloading the dynamic layer of the website on the Internet.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising the step of comparing the marked data in the data store of the user computer to determine the dynamic data to be downloaded from the network site to refresh the downloaded static data.