Local-file-transfer method and local-filed-transfer system for client-server system

A system for transferring information, comprising:

• a WWW client device, including
• a local memory to store information having a file structure;
• and
• a search-condition transfer unit, coupled to said local memory, to read at least one file from said local memory and to output said at least one file from said WWW client device;
• and
• a WWW server device connected to a database, connectable to said WWW client device, including
• a communication unit to receive said at least one file from said WWW client device;
• a storage unit storing the received at least one file;
• and
• a search unit, coupled to said communication unit, to transfer search results to said WWW client device, said search results being obtained by the WWW server reading a literal search term from said at least one file stored at said WWW server device and searching the database for such read literal search term, the searching in response to a search request from the WWW client device.

A method of transferring information between a WWW client and a WWW server in a WWW client-server system, said method comprising:

• initially creating and storing condition files in a storage of said WWW client, said condition files containing search conditions to be used by said WWW server to carry out a search in a storage of said WWW server;
• interactively indicating at least one condition file on a display of said WWW client;
• extracting said at least one condition file among said condition files from said storage of said WWW client;
• responsive to the indicating the at least one condition file, transferring said at least one condition file from said WWW client to said WWW server;
• storing the transferred at least one condition file at the WWW server;
• and
• in response to a search request from the WWW client that references the search condition in the file stored at the WWW server, searching for data files stored in said storage of said WWW server by the WWW server using as a literal search term said search conditions contained in said at least one condition file stored at the WWW server.

A method of communicating a search request from a WWW client to a WWW server in a WWW client-server system, said method comprising:

• transferring a plurality of files initially created and stored at the WWW client from the WWW client to the WWW server, wherein each file contains a literal search term, and the plurality of files are then stored in a storage media at the WWW server;
• after transferring one or more of the files, transferring instructions for a search query from the WWW client to the WWW server where the search query includes a reference to a literal search term stored in a transferred file, and based on the instructions, composing at the WWW server a search query by recognizing the reference and then obtaining the literal search term from the corresponding one of the plurality of files transferred to and stored at the WWW server and new search condition data included in the instructions;
• then
• executing a search at the WWW server according to the search query, where the literal search term is searched for;
• and
• returning results of the search to the WWW client.

A method of searching in a WWW client-server system, comprising:

• initially creating and storing in a memory or storage of a WWW client at least one local condition file, each local condition file containing a search condition;
• after creating and storing at least one of the local condition files, requesting by said WWW client a selection menu from a WWW server;
• sending the selection menu to said WWW client by said WWW server;
• designating a file name of one of the local condition files from the menu provided by said WWW server;
• transferring the local condition file corresponding to the designated file name to said WWW server;
• then
• storing the transferred condition files at said WWW server;
• after the storing of the at least one transferred condition file, entering, at said WWW client, search condition data into a search menu provided by said WWW server, where the search conditions comprise a reference to the search condition in the at least one condition file transferred to and stored at the WWW server;
• transferring from said WWW client to said WWW server instructions for a search query based on the search condition data;
• combining stored search condition data in the at least one of the condition files stored at said WWW server with the new search condition data to perform the search query;
• executing a search based on the search query;
• and
• transferring search results of the search to said WWW client.

a method for querying a web server from a web client separate from the web server, comprising:

• including in a query statement entered at the web client a reference identifying a file to be used by the web server for executing the query statement;
• expanding the query statement at the web server by replacing the reference in the query statement with query information in the referenced file stored at the web server;
• and
• executing the expanded query statement at the web server, where the query information in the query statement is used as a literal search term.

A method for querying a WWW server from a WWW client separate from the WWW server, comprising:

• initially creating and storing a literal search string at the WWW client;
• sending the literal search string from the WWW client to the WWW server;
• responsive to the sending, storing the literal search string at the WWW server;
• after the storing at the WWW server, forming a query request at the WWW client by including in the query request a reference to the literal search string;
• after the forming, sending the query request to the WWW server;
• and
• performing a query at the WWW server based on the query request, by recognizing the reference to the literal search term and, accessing the literal search string stored at the WWW server responsive to the reference in the query request, and searching for the literal search string at the WWW server.

A method for querying a WWW server from a WWW client separate from the WWW server, comprising:

• creating literal search terms at the WWW client;
• after the creating, receiving from the WWW client and then storing the literal search terms at the WWW server, where the literal search terms have a length rendering them impracticable for manual entry;
• and
• after the storing, performing searches at the WWW server using the stored literal search terms as query search terms, responsive to search requests from the WWW client that include references identifying the stored literal search terms, recognizing the references to the literal search terms and then using the referred-to stored literal search terms to search for the literal search terms at the WWW server.

A method for querying a WWW server from a WWW client separate from the WWW server, comprising:

• initially creating, storing, and sending a file containing a literal search term from the WWW client to the WWW server and in response storing the sent file at the WWW server;
• sending from the WWW client to the WWW server a search request, where the search request is sent separately from and after the file;
• and
• searching for the literal search term at the WWW server by recognizing a reference to the literal search term in the search request sent from the client, and dereferencing the reference to search for the literal search term stored at the WWW server.

A method for querying a web server from a web client separate from the web server, the method comprising:

• interactively initially creating and storing, at the web client, a string and an identifier associated with and identifying the string;
• after the creating and storing, transmitting the string and the identifier from the web client to the web server and in response storing the string and identifier at the web server;
• receiving a search form at the web client from the web server and displaying the search form with the web client;
• interactively specifying the identifier with the search form;
• submitting the search form and the specified identifier from the web client to the web server;
• receiving the submitted form at the web server, and in response generating a query statement by recognizing the specified identifier and using it to identify the literal search term, and by using the string stored at the web server and identified by the identifier as a literal search term in the query statement;
• and
• executing the query statement at the web server and returning a search result to the web client.