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US 5,748,188 AGranted
Hypertext markup language (HTML) extensions for graphical reporting over an internet
AssigneeNCR Corporation
InventorsYih-Shiuan Hu, Tejwansh S. Anand
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Abstract
A hypertext data processing system wherein graphical data is sent from a server to a client computer using extensions to the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). The client computer parses the graphical data and formulates an object representative of the graph to display. The object is passed to a graph server which displays the graph.
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A system for displaying a graph on a computer system comprising:
- (a) a network for connecting a plurality of computer systems;
- (b) a server computer system comprising:
- (i) means for selecting a graph type from a plurality of available graph types;
- (ii) means for generating graph elements representative of attributes of the selected graph type;
- (iii) means for transmitting the graph type and the graph elements onto the network;
- (c) a client computer system comprising:
- (1) a video display;
- (2) means for receiving the graph type and the graph elements from the network;
- (3) means for extracting the attributes from the graph elements;
- (4) means for extracting graph data from the graph elements;
- (5) means for generating an object from the attributes, the object representative of the graph type and the graph elements to be displayed on the video display;
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- (6) means for displaying the object on the video display.
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A method for displaying a graph on a computer system comprising the steps of:
- (a) networking a server computer system to a client computer system;
- (b) selecting a graph type from a plurality of available graph types;
- (c) generating graph elements representative of attributes of the selected graph;
- (d) transmitting the graph elements from the server computer system to the client computer system;
- (e) receiving the graph elements;
- (f) extracting the attributes from the graph elements;
- (g) extracting the graph data from the graph elements;
- (h) generating an object from the attributes, the object representative of the graph elements to be displayed;
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- (i) displaying the object on a video display associated with the client computer system.
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