INTERACTIVE SERVER SIDE COMPONENTS

• US 20140006561A1
• Filed: 09/05/2013
• Published: 01/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Helmut Emmelmann
• Original Assignee: Helmut Emmelmann
• Inventors: Emmelmann, Helmut
• Granted Patent: US 8,935,358 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/315 Object-oriented languages
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/00 Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications user-to-user messaging H04L51/00; network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561

Abstract

Server side internet applications are created by placing interactive server side components (ISSC'"'"'s) on internet pages. ISSC'"'"'s encapsulate dynamic page functions including processing of user responses on the server and thus can be reused, which drastically reduces programming effort. The ISSC technique remembers information (in form of an ISSC object) about each ISSC during dynamic page generation on the server. Then, it generates HTML code in a way such that the ISSC event is sent to the server using a conventional HTTP GET or POST request. On the server, the event is then passed to the corresponding ISSC object. All components work without disturbing each other, even when nested or combined. A browser based editor can also be used to place ISSC'"'"'s on pages and to modify their properties. During dynamic page generation, scripts and handles are embedded into the page that permit editing of the page itself.

Claims

1. A computer implementing applications that send generated documents to a browser program in response to requests from the browser program, the computer running a document generator program that generates the generated documents, comprising:

a data store;

a processor;

the document generator program residing in the data store; and

a set of classes implementing components and residing in the data store, each class having a first method;

the document generator program having instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to carry out the steps of;

in response to an initial request from the browser program;

storing a plurality of objects in the data store, each object belonging to one of the classes,

assigning a unique identifier to each stored object, and

generating a generated document having a plurality of the unique identifiers embedded in the generated document,

in response to a subsequent request from the browser program;

analyzing at least a portion of data contained in the subsequent request,

for at least one unique identifier found in the data of the subsequent request, finding the object associated with the unique identifier in the plurality of objects, and

calling at least the first method of the object.

2. The computer of claim 1, wherein the step for assigning a unique identifier assigns identifiers that are unique within each session.

3. The computer of claim 1, wherein the browser program communicates by sending requests and receiving responses via the http protocol, the instructions further comprising:

embedding one or more unique identifiers inside tags contained in the generated document.

4. The computer of claim 1, the instructions for the document generator program further comprising:

for at least one subsequent request, repeating the finding step to find the objects associated with at least two unique identifiers contained in the data, and repeating the calling step for at least two found objects.

5. The computer of claim 1, the instructions further comprising:

embedding one or more of the unique identifiers inside name attributes of tags in the generated document.

6. The computer of claim 1, wherein the first method contains instructions to process a portion of the data contained in the subsequent request.

7. The computer of claim 1, wherein the first method contains instructions to check a portion of the data contained in the subsequent request.