37 results about "Doorway page" patented technology

A method and apparatus for consolidating network information, in some cases for use as a start / portal page. The invention provides means for "framing" Internet content, as well as creating links on the fly, to a single start / portal page that can be accessed by a single user, or by a set of users in a cooperative relationship with each other.

Techniques are disclosed for incrementally rendering content in a content framework (such as a portal page provided by a portal system). Upon receiving a request for a portal page, a portal server immediately returns a response including the results from portlets which have acquired their content. If some portlets have not yet finished, subsequent content is delivered at a later time through use of one of several alternative programmatically-generated mechanisms. Capabilities of existing browsers are leveraged for several embodiments, including use of refresh headers, multipart MIME ("Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions") types, and portal pages structured using frames.

A portal server having a reverse proxy mechanism for proxying one or more Web applications on a backend server in response to a request for Web content from a user. The reverse proxy mechanism includes a portlet, a set of configuration rules, and a rewriting mechanism. The rewriting mechanism is configured to forward a user request for Web content to a Web application on the backend server, receive a response from the Web application, and rewrite the received response in accordance with the configuration rules. The portlet is configured to produce a content fragment for a portal page from the rewritten response. The configuration rules include rules for rewriting any resource addresses, such as URLs, appearing in the received response from the Web application to point to the portal server rather than to the backend server. The disclosed system allows the portal server to appear to the client as the real content server. The portal server is arranged such that an external Web application, which is running on a separate backend server, is displayed to the user within the boundary of the portlet window on a portal page. The backend server remains behind a firewall and the reverse proxy function of the portlet allows a user to access the Web application on the portal server, without needing (or allowing) the user to have direct access to the backend server and backend application which provide the actual content.

A portlet state maintenance system can include a portal page setup component configured to generate a logical form in a single portal page from a multiplicity of forms defined within portlet markup aggregated into the single portal page. A portal state save component further can be configured to save state values for selected portlets defined within the logical form. Finally, a portal state restore component can be configured to restore the saved state values in refreshed portlet markup for the selected portlets. Notably, a refresh timing component further can be configured to embed submit auto-initiation logic in the single portal page responsive to identifying a dynamic refresh requirement associated with the portlet markup in the single portal page. Finally, a portlet markup cache can be coupled to the portal state restore component.

A solution for generating a portal page based on a data item. In particular, one or more portlets are selected from a set of available portlets based on the data item. The selected portlet(s) are then included on the portal page, which can be provided to a user device for display. The data item can be provided to a content provider for the portlet in order to generate the display area for the portlet. Information on the user and / or user device can be used when selecting the one or more portlets for inclusion on the portal page.

A portal is comprised of a plurality of portlets. Each portlet accesses hardware and software to gather data. Each portlet offers information to the portal page. Each portlet's information has a specific content type and markup. A subset of portlets are determined stackable if the subset of portlets have in common one or more of the same hardware, software, content type or markup. Once a subset of portlets is determined stackable, the user's preference for stacking the portlets is obtained by loading a user profile or asking the user. If the subset of portlets are stackable and the user desires the subset of portlets stacked, then the subset of portlets are stacked such that the stack of portlets present a first portlet and a control for selecting a second portlet from within the subset of portlets that is not currently presented.

A display portal page in a web-based environment. This display portlet presents the message communication information between the portlets that are currently running on that portal page. The displayed message communication information indicates the portlet that is the source of a transmitted message and displays one or more portlets that receive the message. The visual representations can be of various formats such as a spacial display or a tree representation. Each communicated message has a stored record identifying the transmitting portlet and any portlet that receives the message.

An improved method, apparatus, and computer usable code for managing a plurality of content portlets in a portal page. A workflow is identified for the plurality of content portlets in the portal page to form an identified workflow. The identified workflow specifies a sequence of tasks in which the plurality of content portlets is executed. A control portlet in the portal page controls execution of content portlets within the plurality of content portlets using the identified workflow.

A method, apparatus and computer instructions for updating a document. A selected user input to a portlet window in a set of portlet windows is detected, wherein current content is displayed in the portlet window. In response to detecting the selected user input, new content for the portlet window is requested from a server. A new content for the portlet window from the server is received. In response to receiving the new content for the portlet window, the current content with the new content without interrupting other portlet windows in the set is replaced.

The present invention relates to the field of network computing, and in particular to method and system for designing a Web Portal comprising a hierarchical structure of portal pages and portlets for accessing Web contents accessible via the Portal. A typical larger enterprise's portal contains large numbers, e.g., thousands of pages and portlets. Due to the complexity of an enterprise portal, manual administration is inefficient as it is time-consuming, error-prone and thus expensive. In order to overcome these disadvantages, it is proposed that a Portal according to the invention performs some mining of the portlet markup and / or that of the portlet description in order to autonomously compute and propose an enhanced portal content structure. This helps to provide a user-friendly content structure that reflects well the relationships between portlets.

A portal summary controller monitors usage metadata indicating current usage of at least one portlet within at least one portal page for one of multiple events specified to trigger storage of the usage metadata. Responsive to detecting one of the multiple events within the usage metadata which triggers storage, the portal summary controller stores the detected usage metadata at a current time of at least one instance of at least one portlet application within the at least one portal page. Subsequent to storing separate detected usage metadata at multiple different times, the portal summary controller dynamically creates a summary portal page displaying a separate instance of the at least one portlet application for at least one of each of the multiple different times specified according to the separate usage metadata stored at each of the multiple different times, such that the summary portal page provides a summary of at least a selection of previous usage metadata selected by a user of the at least one portal page based on usage metadata stored responsive to trigger events.

A method, computer program product, and apparatus for generating multilingual web pages in a portal is disclosed. According to a preferred embodiment, a filter module associated with a web server intercepts an HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) request for a particular portal page and identifies the sender of the request. Language preferences for the sender are determined and a set of new language-specific HTTP requests are issued to obtain portlet content in each of the preferred languages of the sender. The results of these language-specific requests are then assembled into a multilingual portal page.

Provided are a system and method for providing a wireless network service to a user terminal free of charge, by providing a doorway page for exposing an advertisement on the user terminal provided with the wireless network service through an access point. Accordingly, the user terminal may be provided with the wireless network service free of charge, other than the cost of viewing the advertisement exposed on the doorway page. An advertiser and a proprietor may expose the advertisement at the cost of providing the free wireless network service.

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to portal view rendering and provide a method, system and computer program product for managing portal page response times. In one embodiment, a portal data processing system can include a portlet aggregator coupled to a portal server and configured to aggregate portlets in a portal page and to serve the portal page to a requester over a computer communications network. The system also can include a response time monitor coupled to the portal server and configured to measure response times both for the portal page and the portlets in the portal page. Finally, the system can include a response time remediation processor coupled to the response time monitor and configured to disable underperforming ones of the portlets in the portal page so as to improve the response time for the portal page.

A method for differential rendering a portal page that includes a plurality of page elements (10, 12, 14) and refreshing the portal page. The method includes providing a complete portal page (20, 22). A request for the portal page is then sent and / or received (28). The request can represent user events. In a next step, page elements (10, 12, 14) of the portal page to be updated are identified (30, 31) on the basis of the user events. A page delta is then calculated (32), wherein each page element (10, 12, 14) is associated with a refresh policy depending on the semantics of the respective page element (10, 12, 14). The page delta can include the markup elements of the page elements to be updated. Next the page delta is transferred (34) to the existing portal page and merged (40) with the existing portal page.

A portlet state maintenance system can include a portal page setup component configured to generate a logical form in a single portal page from a multiplicity of forms defined within portlet markup aggregated into the single portal page. A portal state save component further can be configured to save state values for selected portlets defined within the logical form. Finally, a portal state restore component can be configured to restore the saved state values in refreshed portlet markup for the selected portlets. Notably, a refresh timing component further can be configured to embed submit auto-initiation logic in the single portal page responsive to identifying a dynamic refresh requirement associated with the portlet markup in the single portal page. Finally, a portlet markup cache can be coupled to the portal state restore component.

A method, system and apparatus for enhancing the run-time display of a portlet using dynamically applied portlet skins. In this regard, a portlet display enhancement system can include a portlet aggregator configured to aggregate portlet views into a portal page, and alternate skin insertion logic programmed to wrap at least one portlet view with an alternate skin in lieu of a static skin. A portlet filter can be communicatively coupled to the portlet aggregator and configured to manage the alternate skin insertion logic. Alternatively, a servlet can be communicatively coupled to the portlet aggregator and configured to manage the alternate skin insertion logic. The alternate skin can include a debug skin. Moreover, the alternate skin can include an auxiliary control programmed to activate an auxiliary view. In this regard, the auxiliary view can include additional debug information.

A method to manage inputs from multiple portlets of a portal page may include gathering any inputs from forms associated with portlets other than a form associated with a portlet that is being submitted. The method may also include appending each gathered input to the form being submitted with an identifier of the form to which the gathered input belongs.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for context driven arrangement of portlets in a portal page. In an embodiment of the invention, a method of context driven arrangement of portlets in a portal page can be provided. The method can include computing a context for an application co-executing with a portal page in a computing client, and arranging portlets in the portal page in the computing client based upon the computed context.

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to managing tabbing order in a portal environment and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for tab order management for portlets in a portal environment. In a first embodiment, a tab order management data processing system can include a portal server configured to render a portal page, a portlet aggregator configured to provide portlet markup for different portlets in the portal page, and tab order management logic coupled to the portlet aggregator. The tab order management logic can be configured to transform a relative tab order for tabbed elements in each of the different portlets into a single tab order for the portal page. For instance, the tab order management logic can include a configuration to transform relative indices for the tabbed elements in each of the different portlets into a single index for the portal page.

A method and apparatus for consolidating network information, in some cases for use as a start / portal page. The invention provides means for “framing” Internet content, as well as creating links on the fly, to a single start / portal page that can be accessed by a single user, or by a set of users in a cooperative relationship with each other.

A browsing system for three-dimensional web display and page fast conversion is displayed and applied in a browser and includes a doorway page, an n-order page, at least one tag module, and a database. The doorway page and the n-order page are pages for displaying objects or three-dimensional panorama. The tag module is marked on the specific areas of the doorway page or the n-order page to interlink mutually. The database includes a comparison module and the tag modules, wherein the tag module is linked by the doorway page or any n-order page, so that the doorway page or the n-order page can quickly convert and the tag modules can automatically generate through the comparison.

In an information processing apparatus providing to a client device a portal page in which a plurality of portlets is aggregated, the information processing apparatus, a retaining unit retains print position information for specifying printed information in each of the plurality of portlets and a designation unit designates a print-designated portlet as a print object from the plurality of portlets aggregated in the portal page and a determination unit determines whether unprinted information is contained in information required for printing the print-designated portlet based on the information required for printing the print-designated portlet designated by the designation unit and the print position information and a creation unit creates a print job in such a manner that the unprinted information of the portlet is printed when the determination unit determines that the unprinted information is contained in information required for printing the print-designated portlet.

The invention discloses a method for judging whether a webpage is a doorway page or not. The method includes the following steps: according to a URL of a website, obtaining html source codes of a page of the website in a virtual request mode, then finding out a complete meta label, judging whether a specific http-equiv attribute is refresh or not, then judging whether a specific content attributes is a figure or not, judging whether url attributes are specified or not, and finally judging that the webpage is the doorway page if all conditions are on yes judgments. By means of the technical scheme, the doorway page is judged to remove unfriendly modes in this class to a search engine, expressions of the website on the search engine are better, and the good website promotional effect is achieved.

The invention discloses a page loading method, and the method comprises the steps: when a user triggers to request to access first operation of a first service on a portal page, terminal equipment, inresponse to the first operation, obtains a software program and a program isolator corresponding to the first service, wherein the software program corresponding to the first service takes a div element in a hypertext markup language HTML page as an application container; when the user requests to access the first service, the software program corresponding to the first service acquired by the terminal equipment takes the div element as the application container, only contains the first service, and does not contain the software program corresponding to the portal page; and the terminal equipment displays a first page corresponding to the first service on the portal page according to the acquired software program and the program isolator after acquiring the software program correspondingto the first service and the program isolator.

A system and method of managing a client / server session is disclosed, in which a client uses a browser to request content from a content server. The content associated with the session is received at the browser along with a session termination URL "STU" from the content server, the session termination URL being passed to a session termination agent "STA" residing within a portal page received at the browser from a portal server. A request for a new session is sent from the browser to the portal server, the request including the session termination URL. The session termination URL is sent by the portal server to the content server to terminate the session.

The invention relates to a method for recording an external link click record by utilizing a doorway page. The method comprises the following operating steps of step 1 clicking a hyperlink connected to the doorway page, wherein the hyperlink includes a target URL parameter of a doorway page address; step 2 transmitting an accessed detailed doorway page URL and obtained current time, an IP (Internet Protocol), browser information and / or screen resolution to a database; step 3 obtaining the target website parameter, judging the target URL parameter through a detection module, when the URL format of a target URL is incorrect, stopping executing a code and outputting a prompt that the URL format of the target URL is incorrect; if the URL format of the target URL is correct, executing the step 4; and step 4 transferring the target URL to a new target URL through a way of URL jump. Through the technical scheme provided by the invention, the target URL is jumped through the doorway page while the information, such as the accessed detailed doorway page URL and the obtained current time and the IP, is transmitted to a database at the doorway page.