Computer system and computer implemented method for synchronization of simultaneous web views

• US 6,317,794 B1
• Filed: 11/12/1997
• Issued: 11/13/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: NCR Voyix Corporation
• Original Assignee: NCR Corporation
• Inventors: Papierniak, Karen A., Chiang, Luo-Jen, Thaisz, James E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Rinehart, Mark H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): CARDONE, JASON D
• Application Number:
  US08/968,730
• Time in Patent Office: 1,462 Days
• Field of Search: 709/213, 709/214, 709/216, 709/217, 709/218, 709/229, 709/105, 707/10, 707/2, 707/3, 707/5, 707/501, 707/513, 711/147, 345/329, 345/330, 345/512
• US Class Current: 709/229
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

A computer system provides synchronizating of multiple simultaneous information presences with different views. The computer system includes at least one storage storing the different views, and at least one user computer transmitting a user request for receiving at least one of the different views. The computer system also includes at least one server, connectable to the storage and the user computer. The computer system initializes the different views on at least one information source, establishes at least one relationship between the different views, assigns a user type and at least one of the different views to each user, and transmits to each user the at least one of the different views responsive to the user request, the user type, the at least one of the different views, and the relationship. A method and computer memory product are also provided.

Claims

1. A method for synchronizing multiple simultaneous information presences with different views using a computer, comprising the steps of:

(a) initializing the different views of at least one information source which may contain numeric and non-numeric information;

(b) establishing at least one relationship between the different views;

(c) assigning a user type and at least one of the different views to each user;

(d) transmitting to each user the at least one of the different views in response to at least one of a user request and the user type, based on the at least one of the different views assigned in said assigning step (c), and the relationship established in said establishing step (b).

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein said method is implemented in a distributed on-line, and interactive environment including multiple client browsers for the synchronization of the multiple simultaneous information presences with the different views.

3. A method according to claim 2, wherein the multiple client browsers are capable of accessing a web server storing information.

4. A method according to claim 2, wherein the multiple client browsers are capable of accessing a web server storing information including customer support material and sales campaign schedules.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein said assigning step (c) assigns the user type and the at least one of the different views with automatically based predetermined criteria including at least one of system defined criteria or user defined criteria including user selectable options defined at least one of before or after log-on.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein said method is implemented in a distributed on-line, and interactive environment for the synchronization of the multiple simultaneous information presences with the different views.

7. A method according to claim 1, wherein each of the different views comprises a plurality of sub-views.

8. A method according to claim 1, wherein said assigning step (c) assigns the user type and the at least one of the different views with automatically based predetermined criteria including at least one of system defined criteria or user defined criteria.

9. A method according to claim 1, wherein said assigning step (c) assigns the user type and the at least one of the different views with automatically based predetermined criteria including at least one of system defined criteria that includes system privileges or user defined criteria.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein different users activate the same hyperlink having the same Uniform Resource Locator (URL) but respectively receive different views.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein there are a plurality of said information sources, at least some of said plurality of sources having incompatible formats.

12. A computer program memory, storing computer instructions to synchronize multiple simultaneous information presences with different views, the computer instructions including:

(a) initializing the different views on at least one information source which may contain numeric and non-numeric information;

(b) establishing at least one relationship between the different views;

(c) assigning a user type and at least one of the different views to each user;

(d) transmitting to each user the at least one of the different views responsive to a user request, the user type, the at least one of the different views assigned in said assigning (c), and the relationship established in said establishing (b).

13. A computer program memory according to claim 12, wherein said instructions are implemented in a distributed on-line, and interactive environment including multiple client browsers for the synchronization of the multiple simultaneous information presences with the different views.

14. A computer program memory according to claim 13, wherein the multiple client browsers are capable of accessing a web server storing information.

15. A computer program memory according to claim 13, wherein the multiple client browsers are capable of accessing a web server storing information including customer support material and sales campaign schedules.

16. A computer program memory according to claim 12, wherein each of the different views comprises a plurality of sub-views.

17. A computer program memory according to claim 12, wherein said assigning (c) assigns the user type and the at least one of the different views automatically based predetermined criteria including at least one of system defined criteria or user defined criteria.

18. A computer program memory according to claim 12, wherein said assigning (c) assigns the user type and the at least one of the different views automatically based predetermined criteria including at least one of system defined criteria includes system privileges or user defined criteria.

19. A computer program memory according to claim 12, wherein said assigning (c) assigns the user type and the at least one of the different views automatically based predetermined criteria including at least one of system defined criteria or user defined criteria including user selectable options defined at least one of before or after log-on.

20. A computer program memory according to claim 12, wherein said instructions are implemented in a distributed on-line, and interactive environment for the synchronization of the multiple simultaneous information presences with the different views.

21. A computer system for synchronizing multiple simultaneous information presences with different views, comprising:

at least one storage storing the different views;

at least one user computer transmitting a user request for receiving at least one of the different views; and

at least one server, connectable to said at least one storage and said at least one user computer, for initializing the different views on at least one information source which may contain numeric and non-numeric information, establishing at least one relationship between the different views, assigning a user type and at least one of the different views to each user, and transmitting to each user the at least one of the different views responsive to the user request, the user type, the at least one of the different views, and the relationship.

22. The computer system of claim 21, wherein there are a plurality of said information sources, at least some of said plurality of sources having incompatible formats.

23. The computer system of claim 21, wherein different users activate the same hyperlink having the same Uniform Resource Locator (URL) but respectively receive different views.