Web interface for providing system-status on-demand

• US 7,409,638 B2
• Filed: 05/10/2001
• Issued: 08/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: James, Raymond Anthony, Erstad, Sue Ann, Travis, William Henry, Fisher, James Arthur, Brewer, Vickie Lynn
• Primary Examiner(s): HUTTON JR, WILLIAM D
• Application Number:
  US09/852,959
• Publication Number:
  US 20020169802A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,644 Days
• Field of Search: 715/513
• US Class Current: 715/744
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/328 Computer systems status display G06F11/327 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

An Internet web application interfaces to a machine to give users information about the status of the machine. The information on the status of the machine is constantly changing. This design only dynamically builds a web page when the page is requested for viewing. Once built, the page is retained so that the next time it is requested, if the information it contains has not changed, the page can be served without having to be rebuilt. If the information has changed, the design will not update the page until the page has been requested. In addition, the page is only built in the human language requested.

Claims

1. A method of displaying status information for a machine via a web interface between said machine and a web server, said method comprising:

maintaining status data for said machine utilizing said machine;

receivng a request from a user to view a web page comprising said status information; and

causing said web page to be displayed to said user utilizing said web server in response to said receiving in order to reduce an amount of processing work required by said machine, wherein

said causing comprises

generating a new markup language file in response to a determination that said status data has been previously updated, and

transmitting said new markup language file to said user in response to said generating,

said request comprises data specifying a requested human language, and

said generating comprises generating said new markup language file in only said requested human language.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein

said data specifying said requested human language comprises data specifying a plurality of requested human languages, and

said generating comprises generating said new markup language file in only each of said plurality of requested human languages.