Systems and methods for implementing modular DOM (Document Object Model)-based multi-modal browsers

US7028306B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• David Boloker · Brookline, US
• Rafah A. Hosn · Stamford, US
• Photina Jaeyun Jang · White Plains, US
• Jan Kleindienst · Nové Strašecí, CZ
• Tomas Macek · Žižkov, CZ
• Stephane H. Maes · Fremont, US
• Thiruvilwamalai V. Raman · San Jose, US
• Ladislav Seredi · Nové Město, CZ

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 4, 2001
• Grant date: Apr 11, 2006
• Expiry date: Jun 30, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F8/38
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Systems and methods for building multi-modal browsers applications and, in particular, to systems and methods for building modular multi-modal browsers using a DOM (Document Object Model) and MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework that enables a user to interact in parallel with the same information via a multiplicity of channels, devices, and/or user interfaces, while presenting a unified, synchronized view of such information across the various channels, devices and/or user interfaces supported by the multi-modal browser. The use of a DOM framework (or specifications similar to DOM) allows existing browsers to be extended without modification of the underling browser code. A multi-modal browser framework is modular and flexible to allow various fat client and thin (distributed) client approaches.