Patent · US Expired

Making a control available to a computer without installing the control

US5875322A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 31, 1997
Grant dateFeb 23, 1999
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 31, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S707/99931
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for providing a programming development environment that supports the development of controls that may be executed in a computer connected to an Internet or Intranet, without the requirement that the controls be installed on the server. This is accomplished by encapsulating the data needed to execute the control without installing the control as objects in an application file storing the entire software project. The application file is copied to a data storage device of the server, which in turn retrieves the application file, accesses the objects containing the data needed to execute the control without installing the control, and then processes the data to execute the control.

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