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US 2002/0178218 A1Published application
Method of browser-server communication
OwnerStefan Butlininventor
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Disclosed is a method of browser-server communication in a communication system (10, 120) comprising browser (40), server (50) and remote server (170), and operable to transmit via HTTP channels (85, 100, 150) content and/or software in response to corresponding requests therefor between browser (40) and server (50) and/or remote server (170), characterized by the steps of: (1) identifying at server (50) and/or remote server (170) availability of content and/or software, issuing notifying instructions therefrom via private communication channels (90, 160) to browser (40) indicative of said content and/or software; (2) transmitting fetching instructions in response to said notifying instructions from browser (40) to server (50) and/or remote server (170) to fetch said content and/or software; (3) transmitting from server (50) and/or remote server (170) said content and/or software to browser (40); and (4) receiving said content and/or software at browser (40).
A method of browser-server communication in a communication system comprising browsing means and serving means, the system being HTTP based for transmitting requests from the browsing means for one or more of content and software via HTTP communicating means to the serving means, and for receiving said one or more of content and software back from the serving means via the HTTP communicating means, the method characterised in that it includes the steps of:
A method according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the supplementary content comprises one or more of HTML-type content, e-mail, data, image data and numerical data.
A method according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the executable software includes plug-ins for at least one of the serving means and the browsing means for enhancing their functionality.
A method according to any one of the preceding claims wherein at least one of the supplementary content and executable software is presented to the user by way of a popup image.
A method according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the serving means and browsing means are initially incapable of supporting the private communicating means, the method including the step of upgrading at least one of the serving means and the browsing means to enable subsequent communication via the private communicating means.
A method according to any preceding claim, the browsing means having associated therewith displaying means for presenting graphical images to the user, the displaying means being partitioned into a first HTML display area and a second non-HTML area.
A communication system operable according to a method according to any one of the preceding claims.
A method of browser-server communication in a communication system substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to one or more of FIGS. 1 to 4.
A communication system substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to one or more of FIGS. 1 to 4.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.