Method for controlling information exchange via the internet

• US 6,725,254 B1
• Filed: 04/02/1999
• Issued: 04/20/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmbH (Fujitsu Limited)
• Inventors: Ahn, Michael, Schinkel, Fritz
• Primary Examiner(s): Thompson, Marc D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BLAIR, DOUGLAS B
• Application Number:
  US09/285,613
• Time in Patent Office: 1,845 Days
• Field of Search: 709/205, 709/228, 709/203, 709/217-219, 709/311
• US Class Current: 709/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/561 Adding application-functional data or data for application control, e.g. adding metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/564 Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data

Abstract

A method for controlling the information exchange between at least one central computer and a subscriber via a control system. Following a request from the subscriber, the control system receives the data relevant to the subscriber from the central computer in a first control phase. In a second control phase, information transmitted from the subscriber is processed and transmitted to the central computer. The first and the second control phases are defined by a single control program.

Claims

1. An improved method for controlling an information exchange between at least one central computer and a subscriber via a control system, the improvement which comprises:

transmitting data relevant to the subscriber from the at least one central computer to the control system during a first control phase following a request from the subscriber;

preparing and transmitting the data to the subscriber from the control system;

processing, during a second control phase, information subsequently received from the subscriber in the control system, and transmitting the information from the control system to the at least bne central computer, the first control phase and the second control phase defined by a single control program; and

providing the control program with symbols indicating sections allocated to one of the first control phase and the second control phase; and

providing the control program with an instruction set of a WebTransaction Markup Language.

2. The method according to claim 1, which comprises using a server side scripting method for programming the control system.

3. The method according to claim 1, which comprises using an HTML instruction set in the control program.

4. The method according to claim 1, which comprises transmitting further information to the at least one central computer in the first control phase.

5. The method according to claim 1, which comprises transmitting further information from the at least one central computer to the control system in the second control phase.

6. The method according to claim 1, which comprises reading, via the control system, a respective control program out of a memory without executing the respective control program.

7. The method according to claim 1, which comprises storing, via the control system, the data in a memory that also contains control programs.

8. The method according to claim 1, which comprises dividing the control program into program sections stored as files in a memory containing control programs.

9. The method according to claim 1, which comprises connecting the subscriber to the control system via one of an Internet and an intranet.