Green ice printout sorting and delivery program
First Claim
1. A data processing system comprising:
- a. a plurality of user terminals which generate log-on service requests and display a report each coupled to a publicly accessible digital communications network;
b. a data base management system which performs a plurality of data base management functions and which generates said report having a data base wherein said log-on service requests correspond to access of portions but not all of said data base and permit requested execution of some but not all of said data base management functions;
c. a software controlled server responsively coupled to said plurality of user terminals via said publicly accessible digital communications network and responsively coupled to said data base management system which receives said log-on service requests and forwards them to said data base management system for honoring;
d. an administration module which automatically determines when to generate said report based upon a particular date;
e. a software object responsively coupled to said data base management system and said administration module which provides said data base management system with a plurality of command script statements to generate said report in response to a signal from said administration module upon reaching said particular date;
f. a storage facility wherein said server spools said report for future delivery to said user terminal; and
g. a delivery facility responsively coupled to said software object which delivers said spooled report to said plurality of user terminals after reaching said particular date and in response to said log-on service requests.
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Abstract
An apparatus for and method of utilizing an internet terminal coupled to the world wide web to access an existing proprietary data base management system having a dialog-based request format. The user request is received by a web server from the world wide web and converted into one or more sequenced data base management commands. These data base management commands are sequentially presented to the data base management system and the intermediate products stored. After all of the sequenced data base management commands have been executed, the web server combines the intermediate products to form a complete response to the initial user request. The response is transferred to the user over the world wide web. A number of reports are automatically generated by said data base management system in response to a signal, such as a change of date or a particular time. The automatically generated reports may be spooled by the repository for future electronic delivery to the appropriate user terminals.
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25 Claims
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1. A data processing system comprising:
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a. a plurality of user terminals which generate log-on service requests and display a report each coupled to a publicly accessible digital communications network; b. a data base management system which performs a plurality of data base management functions and which generates said report having a data base wherein said log-on service requests correspond to access of portions but not all of said data base and permit requested execution of some but not all of said data base management functions; c. a software controlled server responsively coupled to said plurality of user terminals via said publicly accessible digital communications network and responsively coupled to said data base management system which receives said log-on service requests and forwards them to said data base management system for honoring; d. an administration module which automatically determines when to generate said report based upon a particular date; e. a software object responsively coupled to said data base management system and said administration module which provides said data base management system with a plurality of command script statements to generate said report in response to a signal from said administration module upon reaching said particular date; f. a storage facility wherein said server spools said report for future delivery to said user terminal; and g. a delivery facility responsively coupled to said software object which delivers said spooled report to said plurality of user terminals after reaching said particular date and in response to said log-on service requests. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. An apparatus comprising:
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a. a plurality of user terminals which generate a plurality of log-on service requests and display a report; b. a publicly accessible digital communications network coupled to said user terminal; c. a software controlled server responsively coupled to said plurality of user terminals via said publicly accessible digital communications network; d. a data base management system which honors some but not all of a plurality of data base management functions corresponding to each of said plurality of log-on service requests and which automatically generates said report by executing a sequence of command script statements in response to a predetermined signal not initiated by said plurality of user terminals responsively coupled to said server; e. an administration module within said server which spools said report for later electronic delivery to said plurality of user terminals at a future time and delivers said report via said publicly accessible digital communications network in response to receipt of each of said plurality of log-on service requests and not in response to a request for said report from any of said plurality of user terminals. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method of communicating between a plurality of user terminals and a data base management system which performs a plurality of data base management functions and has a data base comprising:
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a. automatically generating a report by said data base management system through the execution of a series of command script statements in response to a sensed signal at a first predetermined time determined by an administration module; b. converting said report into a display page; c. spooling said display page within a repository for delivery at a later time; d. making a plurality of log-on service requests from corresponding ones of said plurality of user terminals to said data base management system wherein each said corresponding ones of said plurality of log-on service requests corresponds to access to some but not all of said data base and execution of some but not all of said plurality of data base management functions; and e. transmitting said display page from said data base management system to said plurality of user terminals in response to receipt of said corresponding ones of said plurality of log-on service requests. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. An apparatus comprising:
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a. permitting means for permitting a plurality of users to interact with a digital data base by making a plurality of log-on service request requests and for displaying a report; b. providing means responsively coupled to said permitting means for providing said plurality of users with access to a publicly accessible digital communication network; c. generating means responsively coupled to said permitting means for generating a report at a predetermined time by executing a sequence of command script statements which provides a plurality of data base functions and which provides only a portion of said data base functions to said permitting means associated with said log-on service request; d. spooling means responsively coupled to said generating means and said permitting means for spooling said report for delivery at a future time different from and subsequent to said predetermined time to said permitting means; and e. delivering means responsively coupled to said generating means for delivering said report in response to receipt of each of said plurality of log-on service requests. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A data processing system comprising:
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a. a plurality of user terminals responsively coupled to a publicly accessible digital data communication network which make service requests using a first protocol; b. a legacy data base management system which honors each of said service requests by executing an ordered sequence of command language script in accordance with a second protocol incompatible with said first protocol corresponding to said each of said service requests responsively coupled to said plurality of user terminals via said publicly accessible digital data communication network; c. a gateway intermediate said plurality of user terminals and said legacy data base management system which converts said service requests from said first protocol to said ordered sequence of command language script according to said second protocol; and d. a report generation facility located within said legacy data base management system which generates a report and transfers it to said plurality of user terminals via said publicly accessible digital data communication network. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25)
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