Client-side asynchronous form management

US6035324A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Hung-Yang Chang · Scarsdale, US
• Norman H. Cohen · Suffern, US
• Richard A. Floyd · Chapel Hill, US
• Barron Cornelius Housel, III · Chapel Hill, US
• David B. Lindquist · Chapel Hill, US
• Steve Mastrianni · Unionville, US
• Marshall Shapiro · New York, US
• Carl D. Tait · New York, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 28, 1997
• Grant date: Mar 7, 2000
• Expiry date: Aug 28, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L67/14
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for communicating with a web browser executing on a remote/mobile processing system which is temporarily and intermittently connected to a second computer. According to the present invention, requests from the web browser to a server application accessible to the second computer are stored in a persistent request queue at the remote/mobile processing system. An interim response is provided to the web browser in response to the request from the client application. The stored request may be recalled to allow user modification of the stored request prior to the request being provided to the second computer for transmission to the server application.