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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsKonrad Charles Lagarde, Richard Michael Rogers
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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.
A method for distributed task fulfillment of requests of a requesting web based agent with a command file agent tangibly embodying a program set of instructions executable by a supporting machine environment for performing required method steps and fulfilling the request by providing a result, said method steps comprising:
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Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking: access to data in other repository…
Applications of a database: text
Organization of data: object-oriented
Organization of data: network
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This invention is related to computers and computer systems and particularly to a method and system for use of the World Wide Web and other sources of information and for utilization of existing equipment advantageously for web server data access over networks and the Internet
This application entitled "A Method for Distributed Task Fulfillment of Web Browser Requests", is related to other United States of America Patent applications filed concurrently herewith, and specifically to the applications entitled "Computer Network for WWW Server Data Access over Internet", U.S. Ser. No. 08/474,571, filed Jun. 7, 1995, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,721,908; and "A Service Agent for Fulfilling requests of a Web Browser", U.S. Ser. No. 08/474,576, filed Jun. 7, 1995 pending; and "A Sub-Agent Service Agent for Fulfilling Requests of a Web Browser", U.S. Ser. No. 08/474,575, filed Jun. 7, 1995 now U.S. Pat. No. 5,745,754; and "A Web Browser System", U.S. Ser. No. 08/479,481, filed Jun. 7, 1995 pending; and "A Method for Fulfilling Requests of a Web Browser" U.S. Ser. No. 08/474,577, filed Jun. 7, 1995 now U.S. Pat. No. 5,701,451.
FIG. 1 shows schematically an overview of the preferred embodiment and particularly shows a typical distributed computer system which has internal and external networks including the Internet to connect clients to World Wide Web servers and other servers within the system in which our invention is situate.
FIG. 2 shows a inquiry screen (home page) which is displayed on a client after the client is coupled to its server (which may be an Internet server) by a Web browser.
FIG. 3 is a next screen which illustrates how a request is made according to a users desires, making a request in accordance with our invention with an input screen shown.
Our detailed description explains the preferred embodiments of our invention, together with advantages and features, by way of example with reference to the following drawings.
FIG. 1 illustrates a information delivery solution of a typical combination of resources including clients and servers which may be personal computers or workstations as clients, and workstations to mainframe servers as servers. The various elements are coupled to one another by various networks, including LANs, WANs, and other networks, which may be internal SNA networks or other like internal networks, and also providing access to the Internet, which couples the system to the world via Internet.
The Preferred Embodiment