Client-side asynchronous form management

A system for communicating with a web browser executing on a remote/mobile processing system which is temporarily and intermittently connected to a second computer, comprising:

• means for storing in a persistent request queue at the remote/mobile processing system, a request from the web browser to a server application accessible to the second computer;
• means for providing an interim response to the web browser in response to the request from the web browser;
• and
• means for recalling the stored request to allow user modification of the stored request prior to the request being provided to the second computer for transmission to the server application.

A computer program product for communicating with a web browser executing on a remote/mobile processing system which is temporarily and intermittently connected to a second computer, the computer program product comprising:

• a computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code means embodied in said medium, said computer-readable program code means a comprising:
• computer-readable program code means for storing in a persistent request queue at the remote/mobile processing system, a request from the web browser to a server application accessible to the second computer;
• computer-readable program code means for providing an interim response to the web browser in response to the request from the web browser;
• and
• computer-readable program code means for recalling the stored request to allow user modification of the stored request prior to the request being provided to the second computer for transmission to the server application.