System and method for applet management
US6807559B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 6, 2000 |
| Grant date | Oct 19, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 6, 2020 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L69/329
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method for applet management utilizes a dubuild utility to form a core distribution unit and component split distribution units to separately package various features of an application to be downloaded on an as requested basis to a browser running on a client computer from a server computer. To start the application the core distribution unit embedded in a core Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) page is first downloaded from the server computer to the client computer and cached in a designated area of storage on the client computer according to HTML tags. The core distribution unit includes core user features, a background frame, and a component manager. The core user features include a menu supported by the background frame to provide selection of additional features provided by the component split distribution units. Once a user selects a requested feature from the menu provided by other than the core distribution unit, the component manager first determines whether a component split distribution unit has already been downloaded and if not, the component split distribution unit containing the requested feature is downloaded from the server computer to the client comput…
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