US 6,211,877 B1Granted

Method for communicating between programming language controlled frames and CGI/HTML controlled frames within the same browser window

AssigneeHewlett-Packard Company

InventorsDouglas W. Steele, Todd M. Goin, Craig W. Bryant

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Abstract

A Web browser based application that allows communications between programming language driven frames and HTML or CGI/HTML driven frames within the same browser window. A Web browser computer on a network accesses the Web browser based application, which is loaded onto a Web server computer, called a remote support node. A port manager, called the hatdaemon, within the Web browser based application, is used to coordinate communications between the programming language frame and the CGI/HTML frame. Accessing functionality in the CGI/HTML frame can generate a message that the hatdaemon will send to the programming language driven frame. The hatdaemon, which maintains a list of all Web browser computers currently logged onto the application, can send the same message to all logged on computers. Thus, changes made by one user to the data in the application can be immediately communicated to all active browsers logged onto the application.

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Dependent claims

A method of communication occurring between frames within a Web browser window, said method comprising the steps of:

(a) displaying, within said Web browser window running in a first task in a graphics display of a first Web browser computer, an HTML page having a first frame and a second frame, wherein said first frame is programming language controlled;
(b) receiving click input on a hyperlink in said first frame of said Web browser window in said graphics display of said first Web Browser computer wherein said click input causes a display of a web page in said second frame of said Web browser computer;
(c) receiving click input on a hyperlink in said second frame in said Web browser window in said graphics display of said first Web browser computer;
(d) requesting a URL for said hyperlink from a second task within said first Web browser computer;
(e) receiving said URL for said hyperlink from said second task;
(f) running a predetermined program defined by said URL for said hyperlink from said second task;
(g) sending an instruction from said predetermined program to port manager software in said second task, causing said port manager software to send a message to said first frame in said Web browser window in said graphics display of said first Web browser computer;
and
(h) displaying said message in said first frame in said Web browser window in said graphics display of said first Web browser computer.

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A method of communication occurring between frames within a Web browser window, said method comprising the steps of:

(a) displaying, within said Web browser window running in a first task in a graphics display of a first Web browser computer, an HTML page having a first frame and a second frame, wherein said first frame is programming language controlled, and further displaying, within a Web browser window in a graphics display of a plurality of additional Web browser computers, said HTML page;
(b) receiving click input on a symbol in said second frame in said Web browser window in said graphics display of said first Web browser computer;
(c) requesting a predetermined program for said symbol from a second task within a remote support node computer, wherein said remote support node computer is connected to said first Web browser computer through a first computer network connection;
(d) running said predetermined program defined by said symbol;
(e) sending an instruction from said predetermined program to port manager software in said second task within said remote support node computer, causing said port manager software to send a message to said first frame in said Web browser window in said graphics display of said first Web browser computer and to said first frame in said Web browser window of each of said plurality of additional Web browser computers;
and
(f) displaying said message in said first frame in said Web browser window in said graphics display of said first Web browser computer, and in said first frame in said Web browser window in said graphics display of each of said plurality of additional Web browser computers.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.