Web interface for providing system-status on-demand

• US 8,020,107 B2
• Filed: 12/14/2007
• Issued: 09/13/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Erstad, Sue Ann, Travis, William Henry, Brewer, Vickie Lynn, James, Raymond Anthony, Fisher, James Arthur
• Primary Examiner(s): Bautista; Xiomara L
• Application Number:
  US11/956,402
• Publication Number:
  US 20090158165A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,369 Days
• Field of Search: 715/733, 715/738, 715/760, 715/234
• US Class Current: 715/760
• 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 data processing system for displaying machine status information, said data processing system comprising:

a machine configured to maintain status data specifying a status of said machine; and

a web server coupled to said machine via a web interface, wherein said web server comprises

means for receiving a request from a user to view a web page comprising said machine status information,

means for causing said web page to be displayed to said user in response to said request in order to reduce an amount of processing work required by said machine, wherein said means for causing comprises means for generating a new markup language file in response to a determination that said status data has been previously updated, and

means for transmitting said new markup language file to said user said request comprises data specifying a requested human language, and said means for generating comprises means for generating said new markup language file in only said requested human language.