US 2009/0158165 A1Published application

Web Interface for Providing System-Status On-Demand

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsVickie Lynn Brewer, Sue Ann Erstad, James Arthur Fisher, Raymond Anthony James, William Henry Travis

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Abstract

An Internet web application interfaces to a machine to give users information about the status of the machine. The information on the status of the machine is constantly changing. This design only dynamically builds a web page when the page is requested for viewing. Once built, the page is retained so that the next time it is requested, if the information it contains has not changed, the page can be served without having to be rebuilt. If the information has changed, the design will not update the page until the page has been requested. In addition, the page is only built in the human language requested.

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Dependent claims

A data processing system for displaying machine status information comprising:

a machine configured to maintain status data specifying a status of said machine;
a web server coupled to said machine via a web interface, wherein said web server comprises
means for receiving a request from a user to view a web page comprising said machine status information,
means for causing said web page to be displayed to said user in response to said request in order to reduce an amount of processing work required by said machine, wherein
said means for said causing comprises
means for generating a new markup language file in response to a determination that said status data has been previously updated, and
means for transmitting said new markup language file to said user
said request comprises data specifying a requested human language, and
said means for generating comprises means for generating said new markup language file in only said requested human language.

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