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US 6,205,474 B1Granted
Access mechanism for parallel status update for multiple servers
AssigneeCompaq Computer Corporation
InventorPeter Mason Hurley
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Abstract
Techniques used in obtaining information in parallel from one or more server systems as requested by a client computer system are disclosed. Multiple requests for information from one or more server systems are made in parallel providing information to the client system asynchronously rather than using a sequential synchronous programming technique.
Claims17
A method of providing information to a client system in a network, the network including one or more server systems, said method comprising the steps of:
- issuing a plurality of requests for status information about a plurality of notes conferences to one or more of the server systems, said plurality of requests issued by means of a standard Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) language FRAME feature in a browser, said browser resident in the client system;
- receiving one or more responses from the one or more server systems in response to said plurality of requests, each said response comprising at least a portion of the status information requested, said one or more responses received by said browser;
- providing a parent frame in a display at the client system;
- creating a frame set of child frames in said parent frame;
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- providing each said portion of status information to said display, each said portion of status information provided to said parent frame in a sequence as received from the one or more server systems, each said child window frame for updating a portion of said status information.
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