Computing system and method to implicitly commit unsaved data for a world wide web application

• US 7,953,760 B2
• Filed: 01/06/2005
• Issued: 05/31/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Siebel Systems Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Siebel Systems Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Mukundan, Anil, Coker, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Saeed; Usmaan
• Application Number:
  US11/031,667
• Publication Number:
  US 20050131925A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,336 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 707/802
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/547 Remote procedure calls [RPC]; Web services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

The invention is a computing system comprising a World Wide Web application with a user interactive record field. The record field receives a record field entry. The application receives a context change request. Responsive to the context change request, the application dynamically transmits the record field entry to a server for storage in a database.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

a client computer displaying a first view, the first view comprising a user interactive record field;

the client computer receiving an entry in the user interactive record field;

storing the entry in a client cache, wherein

the entry is maintained in the client cache before the entry is transmitted to a web server, and

the entry is not maintained in the client cache after the entry is transmitted to the web server;

the client computer receiving a context change request;

in response to the context change request, the client computer transmitting the entry from said client computer to the web server, wherein

the transmitting comprises executing a remote procedure call, and the executing the remote procedure call comprises;

marshalling a first remote procedure call argument,

transmitting the first remote procedure call argument,

receiving a second remote procedure call argument, and

unmarshalling the second remote procedure call argument;

in response to the context change request and after transmitting the entry from said client to the web server, the client computer displaying a second view that is distinct from the first view;

the client computer receiving another context change request after displaying the second view;

the client computer redisplaying the first view in response to the client computer receiving the other context change request, the redisplayed first view comprising the user interactive record field;

the client computer receiving the entry from the web server;

the client computer populating the redisplayed user interactive record field with the entry received from the web server.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the context change request is a World Wide Web browser view change.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein an application in a web client controls all direct communications with the web server.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a notification from the web server; and

transmitting the context change request to the web server responsive to the notification indicating that the entry is stored in the database record.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein transmission of the context change request to the web server occurs after the time at which it would have otherwise been transmitted when the notification indicates an error in storing the entry into the database record.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the context change request is not transmitted to the web server.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the executing the remote procedure call further comprises embodying the remote procedure call as an hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) request.

8. A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a set of instructions, which when executed by a client computer, the client computer performs a method comprising:

displaying a first view, the first view comprising a user interactive record field;

receiving an entry in the user interactive record field;

storing the entry in a client cache, wherein

the entry is maintained in the client cache before the entry is transmitted to a web server, and

the entry is not maintained in the client cache after the entry is transmitted to the web server;

receiving a context change request, transmitting the entry to a web server for subsequent storage in a database record, wherein

the transmitting comprises executing a remote procedure call, and the executing the remote procedure call comprises;

marshalling a first remote procedure call argument,

transmitting the first remote procedure call argument,

receiving a second remote procedure call argument, and

unmarshalling the second remote procedure call argument;

in response to the context change request and after transmitting the entry to the web server, displaying a second view that is distinct from the first view;

receiving another context change request after displaying the second view;

redisplaying the first view in response to receiving the other context change request, the redisplayed first view comprising the user interactive record field;

receiving the entry from the web server;

populating the user interactive record field of the redisplayed first view with the entry received from the web server.

9. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the context change request is a view change.