US 5,710,918 AGranted

Method for distributed task fulfillment of web browser requests

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsKonrad Charles Lagarde, Richard Michael Rogers

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Abstract

A World Wide Web browser makes requests to web servers on a network which receive and fulfill requests as an agent of the browser client, organizing distributed sub-agents as distributed integration solution (DIS) servers on an intranet network supporting the web server which also has an access agent servers accessible over the Internet. DIS servers execute selected capsule objects which perform programmable functions upon a received command from a web server control program agent for retrieving, from a database gateway coupled to a plurality of database resources upon a single request made from a Hypertext document, requested information from multiple data bases located at different types of databases geograhically dispersed, performing calculations, formatting, and other services prior to reporting to the web browser or to other locations, in a selected format, as in a display, fax, printer, and to customer installations or to TV video subscribers, with account tracking.

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Dependent claims

A method for distributed task fulfillment of requests of a web browser with a command file agent tangibly embodying a program set of instructions executable by a supporting machine environment for performing method steps required by a request initiated at said web browser and fulfilling the request by a providing a result, said method steps comprising:

receiving at said command file agent a submit command from a control program agent in preparation for a report and variables associated with said report to pass to said command file agent as a command file variable for use in naming a report file which will be created by said command file agent will create that said report file with a unique file name during execution of said command file agent,
processing by said command file agent a series of linked objects according to a specified flow sequence within a distributed data environment specified by said command file agent, including executing functions specified in said command file agent for including data retrieval and processing, and
in the process storing the result of said processing in said report file having said unique file name during execution of said command file agent.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.