System and method for delivering remotely stored applications and information

• US 20040199574A1
• Filed: 11/24/2003
• Published: 10/07/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alex Bulkin, Frank Leon Rose, Greg Blonder, Louis M. Franco, Mark Cunningham, Mat Baskin, Philip S.J. Brittan
• Original Assignee: Alex Bulkin, Frank Leon Rose, Greg Blonder, Louis M. Franco, Mark Cunningham, Mat Baskin, Philip S.J. Brittan
• Inventors: Cunningham, Mark, Blonder, Greg, Rose, Frank Leon, Franco, Louis M., Brittan, Philip S. J., Baskin, Mat, Bulkin, Alex
• Granted Patent: US 7,502,838 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/54 Interprogram communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/06 Message adaptation to terminal or network requirements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A method and system are disclosed for delivering interactive links for presenting applications and second information at a client computer from remote sources in a network-configured computer processing system. In one embodiment, the method includes retrieving over a first communication connection, in response to a request of a client computer, informational content having computer program code embedded therein, and executing the embedded computer program code for establishing a second communication connection to an application server. The method further includes retrieving over the second communication connection first information including presentational information for presenting the application and the second information. The method also includes presenting the application and the second information based upon the presentational information, and storing on the client computer an interactive link for selectively re-establishing the second communication connection to the application server for retrieving the first information and presenting the application and the second information on an as-needed basis. Preferably, the storing of the interactive link includes downloading a graphical representation of the interactive link and storing a file containing information representing an operating environment of the client computer and a network address of the application server.

Claims

1. In a network configured computer processing system having a plurality of client computers and a plurality of host computers, a method for delivering interactive links for presenting applications and information from remote sources on the network, the method comprising:

retrieving, in response to a request of a client computer, over a first communication connection informational content having computer program code embedded therein and executing the embedded computer program code for establishing a second communication connection to a second host computer;

retrieving, over the second communication connection, first information including presentation information for presenting an application and second information;

presenting, at the client computer, the application and the second information based upon the presentational information; and

storing, on the client computer, an interactive link for selectively re-establishing the second communication connection to the second host computer for retrieving the first information and presenting the application and the second information.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the presentational information includes at least one of instructions for rendering components of the presented application, default parameters and data values exhibited within the components, and application-specific business logic for processing input to the presented application.