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(21) Application No. 837/DELNP/2003 A (22) Date of filing of Application: 28/05/2003
(54) Title of the invention: “METHOD FOR FULFILLING REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
DATA FROM A NETWORK.”
(51) International Classification 7 : G 06F 17/30
(30) Priority Data :
(31) Document No.: 00480128.8
(32) Date : 20/12/2000
(33) Name of convention country :
EP
(66) Filed U/s 5(2) : NIL
(61) Patent of addition to application No. : NA
(62) Filed on : NA
(63) Divisional to Application No. :NIL
(64) Filed on : NA
Total No. of Pages: 33
(57) Abstract:
(71) Name of the applicant:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE
CORPORATION.
Address of the Applicant:
Armonk, New York 10504, U.S.A.
(72) Name of the Inventor:
AUFFRAY VINCENT
BRICARD ARNAUD
LECOMTE FABIEN
LESCARMONTIER ARNOLD
VALLADE JEAN-MARIE
Disclosed herein are a method and a system of fulfilling requests for information data from a
network client in a client-server environment. The information data requested is accessible from a
network server and is displayable through a form-based format hypertext document whereby the
information data are provided by the filling of dedicated form fields in the hypertext document.
The method comprises the following steps. Receiving (13) at the network client a hypertext
document and a program component; displaying (31) the hypertext document, the hypertext
document having initially no information data filling its form fields; obtaining (41) a request for
information from a user of the network client, through a user interface presented to the user as a
result of the displaying of the hypertext document, and calling (43) the program component for
obtaining the requested information data; upon determination (51) that the requested information
data is already or not stored in a buffer memory allocated to the program component in the
network client, obtaining (57) the requested data by retrieving them from the buffer memory, or
downloading (53, 55, 57) them from the network server; filling (59) the appropriate form fields in
the hypertext document with the obtained information data, and displaying the hypertext document
with the requested information data contained therein.
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