Cool ice automatic footer text on HTML pages

An apparatus comprising:

• a. a user terminal;
• b. a publicly accessible digital communications network communicating with said user terminal via an HTML display page;
• c. middleware responsively coupled to said user terminal via said publicly accessible digital communications network which converts said HTML display pages received from said user terminal into a format incompatible with HTML including a sequence of command language script statements and responses in said format incompatible with HTML into HTML display pages;
• d. a state oriented data base management system wherein an individual one of said sequence of command language script statements is interpreted in light of a previous command language script statement, and employing said format incompatible with HTML responsively coupled to said middleware;
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• e. an administration module responsively coupled to said publicly accessible digital communications network and said middleware which automatically adds an optional footer to said HTML display page indicating that said HTML display page was produced by said state oriented data base management system.

A method of communicating between a user terminal utilizing HTML display pages and a state machine data base management system employing a legacy format incompatible with HTML pages which executes an ordered sequence of dialog-based requests wherein an individual one of said sequence of dialog-based requests is interpreted in light of a previous one of said sequence of dialog-based requests, comprising:

• a. transmitting an HTML display page from said user terminal;
• b. converting said HTML display page into said ordered sequence of dialog-based requests;
• c. executing said sequence of dialog-based requests within said data base management system to produce a result;
• d. formatting said result as a second HTML display page;
• e. automatically inserting an optional footer in said second HTML display page indicative of a process which is really the output of a state machine data base management system;
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• f. transferring said second HTML display page to said user terminal.

An apparatus comprising:

• a. means for permitting a user to transmit an HTML display page;
• b. means responsively coupled to said permitting means for providing said user with access to a publicly accessible digital communication network for transmitting said HTML display page;
• c. means responsively coupled to said permitting means for converting said HTML display page into a format incompatible with HTML including a sequence of command language script statements and converting a result in said format incompatible with HTML into a second HTML display page;
• d. means responsively coupled to said converting means for offering data processing services in response to said HTML display page converted to said format incompatible with HTML to produce said result in said incompatible legacy format;
• e. means responsively coupled to said converting means and said permitting means for transferring said second HTML display page containing said result of said response of said offering means;
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• f. means responsively coupled to said converting means for automatically attaching an optional footer to said second HTML display page.

An apparatus comprising:

• a. a user terminal including an industry compatible personal computer which issues a service request;
• b. a commercially available Internet browser operably located within said user terminal which converts said service request into an HTML page;
• c. an Internet access responsively coupled to said user terminal via said commercially available Internet browser;
• d. a state-based enterprise server responsively coupled to said user terminal via said Internet;
• e. a dialog based legacy data base management system hosted on said enterprise server accessible by a series of command language script statements wherein one of said series of command language script is interpreted in light of the previous command language script statements which produces a service request result;
• f. a gateway hosted on said enterprise server which converts said service request from said HTML page into said series of command language script statements and which converts said service request result into a resultant HTML page;
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• g. an administration module hosted on said enterprise server which automatically and optionally modifies said resultant HTML page to include a footer.

A method comprising:

• a. generating a service request at a user terminal including an industry standard personal computer;
• b. converting said service request into an HTML page via a commercially available browser;
• c. transmitting said HTML page via the Internet;
• d. receiving said HTML page by a state-based enterprise server;
• e. converting said HTML page into a series of command language script statements using a gateway;
• f. temporarily storing said series of command language script statements in a repository;
• g. executing said series of command language script statements with a dialog based legacy data base management system wherein a given one of said series of command language script statements is interpreted in light of a previous one of said series of command language statements;
• h. producing a service request resultant by said dialog based legacy data base management system as a consequence of said executing step;
• i. converting said service request resultant into a resultant HTML page within said gateway;
• j. automatically and optionally adding a footer to said resultant HTML page;
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• k. transferring said resultant HTML page to said user terminal via said Internet.