Data file and rule driven synchronous or asynchronous document generation
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorsSuchisubhra Sinha, Ravi Ketankumar Mistry, Richard H. Heisterberg, Gurudatta Horantur Shivaswamy, Rangaraj Keshavamurthy Belur
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Abstract
A data file describes a document to be generated and stores an instruction to provide constituent data of the document via a network. The data file is accessed at a local computer, and the document is generated based on the data file. The generated document is communicated via the network to a remote computer. At the local computer, the instruction to provide constituent data is processed using a processor of the local computer. The constituent data is provided via the network to the remote computer as an update of the generated document.
Claims1
A method of providing a refreshed portion of a webpage, the method comprising:
- at a server computer, accessing a data file describing the webpage as including a plurality of portions, each of the plurality of portions being independently refreshable, the data file storing an instruction to provide the refreshed portion of the webpage via a network;
- processing the instruction using a processor of the server computer;
- generating a first portion of the webpage, the first portion being less than an entirety of the webpage;
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- providing the first portion of the webpage as the refreshed portion of the webpage via the network to a client computer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.