System and method for providing status information from multiple information sources in a single display
AssigneeAT&T Corp.
InventorsLawrence David Jackel, Urs A. Muller
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Abstract
The present invention is a system and method for providing and displaying information collected from a variety of information providers such as an electronic mail server or an information content server. Each of the variety of information providers provides information updates which are captured and rendered in a variety of status images which are provided to a user via a Web page or similar facility. The display of information on the Web page is robust against displays from one or more of the information providers since each of the status images and the remainder of the Web page content are rendered independently.
Claims20
A method for providing status information from multiple information servers, the method comprising:
- receiving a request for status information from the multiple information servers;
- acquiring status information from each of the multiple information servers;
- and
- rendering status images related to the status information received from each of the multiple information servers, wherein the rendering of any one of the status images is not affected by any delay in acquiring status information from any one of the other multiple information servers.
A method for providing and displaying information received from multiple information provider sources, the method comprising:
- providing a status indicator for each of the multiple information provider sources which includes:
- receiving status information from each of the multiple information provider sources;
- and
- generating an image for each of the multiple information sources, wherein each respective image contains status information from each of the multiple information sources, wherein each image is generated without regard to whether any one or more of the multiple information sources is delayed in providing status information.
A method for providing a visual representation of information collected from a variety of information sources for display in a single Web page, the method comprising:
- receiving a request for information from a plurality of information sources;
- processing the request for information from the plurality of information sources;
- and
- displaying the information from each of the plurality of information sources, wherein the information is displayed in a plurality of status images, each of which represent a single information source.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.