TW509850B - A system and method making software in form of web pages - Google Patents

Abstract

A system and method making software in form of web page provides client with communication technique via its web browser to simultaneously operate and control connection of application software in remote server so that existing software in remote server needs no significant modification of program codes but executes in form of web pages and web browser over client end can be operated and controlled.

Description

V. Description of the invention α) "Overview of the Invention"? = System and method of web-based webpage, divide the software that needs web-based webpage into two: one of them is the user interface (U " part, the other Is the core (Kernel) part ^., 1 injury, through communication technology can be viewed through the web page of the client (Client), ~ ^, ^ 11 is the existing remote control host (Server) Software "Background of the Invention" Pair = Most of the existing application software is divided into a stand-alone version installed on a personal host or a network version of a server host installed on a LAN-Local Area Network. , But how to provide an application software (Ap-Application Software) that can be manipulated through a web browser (web browser) on the Internet can be said to be unique. Of course, in theory, The code of the application software has been rewritten greatly. In terms of existing programming technologies, 'programming web technology' is nothing more than Java, Active X, NS plug in, and Microsoft Net. All of these technologies have a feature It is necessary to rewrite the original program to make the application software web-based. However, for a software programmer, the time for program development is quite time-consuming, and the existing application software is as high as Thousands of kinds, if the code is completely rewritten, it can be said that it is minimal. The principle of the web browser is to read the specified document through the program of the network client (C1 ient) and display it to the user On the computer screen, and this client program is called a web browser;

IH V. Description of the invention (2) Except the super file system on the Internet) to express text. And the Active Internet and new developments have reached a point where the use of this technology will bring files, of course ... and so on. However, only by controlling the remote server can the webpage message be realized, and the real-time operation can be performed in the case of a remote remote host. How to use the application browser on the current host is no longer just going to execute the process. The present invention is designed in the existing The "invention purpose" of the software in a webpage and providing communication connection The present invention accelerates the existing non-coded case. It is a software webpage application. In addition to the general text files of the webpage, most of the webpages use (HTML -Hyper Text Markup Language, and the HTML file is basically a text file. It is Microsoft's ability to display web multimedia technology in order to increase the performance of web pages: in particular, it provides a platform for web pages to set interactive content. The Active X technology will change the realm of the Internet. Simply put, the static graphics on the road are changed to more dynamic and interactive technologies. There are countless technologies, JavaScript ... :: Page feather browser to go through the Internet Limiting mature technology: Multi-C language production-language = software. There is no need for a web-based system and method. Instead, you need to significantly modify the software code. # The remote page browser uses the application software. The webpage software is not required. Its purpose is to implement a large-scale modification of Cheng 5 # ’on the browser to make it web-based. 509850 V. Description of the invention (3) First, divide the application software that needs webpage into two parts. One part is UI-User Interface, a part of the program that can interact with the user. , Including the command line interface, menu-based interface and graphical user interface), the other part is the core Kernel (Kern e 1, the central program of the operating system, that is, the system management memory, files and peripheral equipment, maintenance time and Date, start the application, and configure system resources), borrow communication-related software technologies such as: (1) If the two parts are on the same host, use the operation of DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) to share memory (shared memory Body) and Windows Message (window message).

(2) If the two parts are on different hosts, the network protocols supported by the system host are TCP / IP or Net DDE (Network Dynamic Data Exchange) and NetBEUI (Net B EUI-NetBIOS Enhanced User Interface) network protocols. The main DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) or NetDDE (Net Dynamic Data Exchange) or NetBEUI (User Enhanced Interface) or Tcp / Ip network protocols are all part of the Inter-Process Communication (IPC-Inter Process Communicati on) technology. One is the principle that a task or program can communicate with other tasks or programs in a multi-tasking system using communication-related technologies, so that non-web-based application software can communicate with a web browser, so that Running the system and method in a web browser can make general application software run in a background program of a remote server host when the web browser is displayed and executed. For software programmers, the development process has been greatly reduced. Application software

Page 6 509850 V. Description of the invention (4) For companies wanting to make web pages, it can reduce 1, time for research2, time for development3, time for debugging (Debug) 4, time for learning new technologies5, break through existing Web software restrictions. In the following, the structural features and use functions of the present invention will be described in detail according to the preferred embodiments shown in the drawings. Among them, the brief description of each icon is as follows "Illustration of drawing number" 1 .........

1 1 、 2 1 ......... Web-based device 1 2 ......... General application software 1 3, 2 3 ...... ... Input 1 4 、 2 4 ......... Output 1 5, 2 5 ......... Keep alive 1 6, 1 7 ......... Command conversation window 2 ... ... user terminal 2 2 ......... interactive element 2 6 ......... web browser

"Illustration of Example" The present invention is a software webpage system and method. Through communication-related software technology, the existing remote server host (Server) can be controlled through the web browser of the client (C1ient). Application software. Please refer to the first figure, the present invention can be applied through the setting of the communication network.

Page 7 509850 V. Description of the invention (5) It is used on the Internet or intranet to connect with the server host through the software technology of inter-stroke communication. Generally, a firewall is usually installed on the temple server host ( Firewall) security system. The firewall is not only limited to use in both networks and corporate networks. It can be used to protect the network within the ancestors from external networks (such as hackers) from other networks. Security system; among them, it should be particularly emphasized that the main technology valley of the present invention is the application communication protocol (such as TCP / IP-it can divide the data signal into packets and transmit them through the Internet protocol. Combining and verifying data to restore the original message is a connection-oriented software communication technology that can be " is 赖 协 疋 (can guarantee error-free message transmission)) or IPC-Inter Process Communication The principle is the ability of a task or program to communicate with other tasks or programs in a multi-tasking system. Common methods include pipelines and signal machines. Shared memory, queues, communication and mailbox. Please refer to the second figure to briefly explain the overall operating structure, and first divide the application software that requires webpages into two parts, one part is the user interface UI (UI-User Interface, can be used with Part of the program that the user interacts with includes the front-end part of the command line interface, menu-based interface, and graphical user interface, and the other part is the core Kerne 1 (Kerne 1, the central program of the operating system, which refers to the system management memory, Files and peripherals, maintaining time and date, launching applications, and configuring system resources). The aforementioned application is divided into two parts, the front-end user interface UI and the core Kernel, which are essentially contained in a single application architecture, and the implementation architecture of the present invention is divided into two types, the first one Η eighth Page 509850 V. Description of the invention (6) When the user interface UI of the application and the kernel Kernel are operated on two different ends; the second is when the application interface uses the UI and the kernel Kernel on the same end. Time. At this point, first explain the implementation of the application software when it operates at different ends. First, provide a server host 1 that has installed general application software 12, such as WordPad, Xiaojiajia, Notepad, Solitaire. ......... wait, and load a web-based device 1 1, wait for the client 2

Open the web browser 2 6 and connect to the server host 1 through the communication network, and automatically download the application software containing the web-based device 11 in the server host 1 which has been web-based UI part of the front-end user interface. Act ive X interactive component technology is installed on the client 2 and displayed in the web browser 26; the user controls the user interface in the web browser 26; thereafter, the web-based device 1 1, 2 1 is a software technology for communication between trips Three logical channels are established, and the three logical channels are used in the background operation to repeatedly transfer data. Please refer to the third and fourth figures for the detailed process of the present invention. First set up a server host 1 and load a webpage device 1 1, and install a-

The general application software (step 31), wherein the servo host 1 is not specifically designated as a device that requires a higher level, and the host computer of the general household can also be used as the servo host 1. The client 2 opens the web browser 2 6 and connects to the server 1 via the communication network in a connected state (step 3 2). Please refer to the ninth and tenth diagrams. The client 2 automatically downloads the web page device 11 that has been combined with the web device 11 through the web browser 26.

(Page 9) 85. Description of the invention (7) Web application front-end user interface UI part of general application software 12 and interactive components downloaded and installed at the same time 2 2 Active X technology combined and displayed locally (users) End 2) In the web browser 26 (step 3 3), as shown in the eleventh figure; in the present invention, Active X components are supported, and the Ac 10.1 ve X components can be used in a networked environment. Various application software components interact with each other, and no matter what language is used to build the set of technologies 'Although Act ive X can be used in desktop applications and other programs,' it is currently mainly used to develop the world The interactive content on the information network can be $ k into the webpage to produce animation and other multimedia effects, interactive objects and various cutting-edge applications. In addition, the equivalent component technology can be packaged, Java, Java appiet, plug IN small Programs, etc. 、, the client 2 and automatically start the remote general application software 1 2 another core = ernel part (that is, the general application software that is not web-based) (step 3 4) ° When using the software 1 2 t pieces in combination with the The webpages are all identified through a task to confirm the program gap with ion-finger. One is for the turners to control the user and the application can be multi-threaded when the software is webpage-oriented or the program can run. 1 3 ( When using the technology of 2 net user mediators whose nuclear device 1 is capable of acting on it (an input), the server 1 downloads and installs the general application page browser 2 6 and uses the ActiveX element surface UI part to remotely servo The Kernel part of the center of the host 1 operates in real time, and 1, 2 1 at both ends repeatedly communicate between trips (= task or program data transmission confirmation in the multi-tasking system (step 3 5). Multithreaded applicat program serialization thread) Set up three logical channels, one for output 14 (〇ut

V. Description of the invention (8) One is to keep linked 1 5 (Keep alive) logical put) logical channel channel (step 3 6 y — where 'Keep linked 14 logical channels', send to user end every two seconds on send: Message, (step: "by: the user cannot receive the message within two seconds, then the γ machine = =, must be handled as an exception (step 3 if 3 server 1 standby machine, user 2 sends the message, (Beijing) means that the user uses the machine 1 = :: 1 must make an exception (step 3 9). 2 Standby machine, the servo host also refers to the figure at the same time. It uses the string as an example to explain the example. The input message of the disk or mouse is specified by the user 2 ’s heart. Client c_and 2 ”=, key 6, via the input 13 logical channel to the temple host; window 1); servo host] _ received input 3 logical transmission u (Step 4 0… logical channel N 2 '' material processing system, application, network dynamic data exchange (

NetDDE-Network Dynamic Data Exchange, which allows two or more programs running at the same time to exchange data and commands. Built on the user enhanced interface NetBEUI (NetBIOS Enhanced User Interface), a standard proposed for LAN management servers. It allows Fast data transmission 'This cooperative project is widely used in other networks.) Existing on the end user 2 and the servo host i, please refer to the fifth and; "So; in the K end 2 to the servo host 1 requires a call (WM_DDE-Ini tiate) for a keep-alive i 5 (Keep Al i ve), and the user end 2 establishes the keep-alive 1 5 to establish a shared memory (Share Memory) existing in its system

509850 5. In the description of the invention (9)), and at the same time get A tom Hand 1 e (string-number) (a tom Han nd 1 e- is a built-in function in the window, refers to the conversion of r string "into A short "number" to provide identification at both ends) transmitted through the Network Dynamic Data Exchange (NetDDE) protocol format system that exists on the client 2 and then via the user established on the TCP / IP network protocol Enhanced Interface (NetBEUI) (You can use NetDDE—WINS (Windows Internet Naming Service—a method for server to combine computer host name and address) —NetBEUI is built on TCP / IP —1 ^? / 1 The mode allows the method to support 1 [(:: 1 > / 1? Protocol) and the network dynamic data exchange (NetDDE) protocol format system that exists on the server host 1 and restores the Atom Handle (number-string) at the same time. ) And then send it to servo host 2. If servo host 2 processes the response 0K, it will send it back to user 2 for confirmation; servo host 1 returns 0K (WM_DDE jck) to user 2; servo host 1 sends Client 2 indicates that the data is available Change (WM_DDE_Data); the client 2 receives the message (or did not receive) that the data returned from the server 1 is changed (WM_DDE_Ack). Repeat the hot link WM —DDE_Data and WM —DDE_Ack Hot Link (Hot Lin, k -Refers to a link between two programs. When the data in the first program changes, the second program will be notified and the data will be changed), and the data can be transmitted. The foregoing data transmission is repeated Work in the background. The results of all the previous iterative processes in the background will be performed on the web browser 2 of the user terminal 2 6 by Act i veX components to generate the display screen of the graphical user interface (step 4 2), as described in Section 4. Figure 12; when used

Page 12 509850 V. Description of the invention (ίο) -------- The user leaves the web browser 2 6 screens, the user side! The server and the server are disconnected, and the host 1 finishes the communication software technology of the webpage device 丄 i, 1 by itself (step 43). : I: φ icjy Danzhong, please refer to the sixth figure for the end process. The client 2 requests the server host i for a connection (WM_DDE_Unadvise); the server host 1 sends a messenger ”, and returns OK (WM —DDE_Ack) ; The user terminal 2 asks the servo host 1 for # 妹 束 电话 (WM_DDE-Terminate); the servo host 1 agrees to end (w ° m-DDE-Terminate) 〇 In addition, the present invention is implemented when the application software is operated on the same end The appearance is that the front-end user interface U 丨 and core Kernel of the application of servo host 1 include the web device i 丄 WInstaU Fr〇in Web technology (the components are downloaded by FTP first, and installed in the background, and downloaded after the installation is complete Temporarily deleted), as shown in the thirteenth figure, at this time, the server host 1 is not functioning, and the screen displayed on the web browser 26 is used in conjunction with the front end of the web-based device 21. The user interface μ and establish a logical channel, while its core Kernel is not web-based and exists in the background part of the operation. Please refer to the eighth figure, the user end 2 establishes this keeping linkage 15 in the shared memory (share Mem ory) in its system, and obtains the Atom Handle (string-number) at the same time. Message (Message-In the operating system that generates the message (such as window software), the message refers to a set of information passed between the operating environment itself and some devices of the system during program execution) and is transmitted to the core that exists in the background Kernel (the core Kernel was previously sent to the client 2 exists in the background), and then calls the Windows API (Win API)

Page 13 509850 V. Description of the invention (11) do ws API- a set of routines used by an application program, which can control the performance of the execution process by the computer's operating system) restore the Atom Handle (number ~ character (String). Kernel 1 confirms whether it is supported. If it is supported, the response is 0 K, and data can be transmitted repeatedly. The foregoing data transmission is performed in the background.

See Figures 14 and 15 for details. It is the embodiment of the above-mentioned background in the same end, and uses strings and graphics as examples. The user terminal 2 enters the message data through the keyboard to Cl ient Command. The web-based user interface UI includes a command chat window 16 and then sends it to the background Kernel 1 part of the unpaged core and Kerne 丨 part of the web page. (The picture shows the command of the core Kerne 1 The chat window is pulled out) The user received the input message data cHent Command sent from the UI on the I side; the processed information is the Server Command, which is sent to the user interface UI command. In the interface UI, the command chat window 1 7 receives the message data from the background kernel Kerne 1 Server Comm and has been repeatedly exchanging data to achieve one task or program and other tasks or programs in a multi-tasking system The ability to communicate with applications.

It can be seen that the aforementioned web-based devices 1 1 and 21 are software communication technologies that use inter-stroke communication. As mentioned earlier, the inter-stroke communication (IPC-Inter Process Communication) includes NetDDE-Network Dynamic Data Exchange), including other similar technologies; such as object linking and embedding (0LE-0bject linking and embed

Page 14 509850 V. Description of the invention (12) ding) refers to, for example, when) is bonded to a standing document), so in this case, when the aforementioned document contains any changes made See the scrapbook (block memory resource information in the compound document. The information generated by the program will be passed to the program in the future, which is not mentioned in the aforementioned related technologies. A kind of object in the application n (such as two == share information) Technology, a composite text, (such as the generated image building, in this composite document = or any change in the content of the object created by word processing = ^ contains an object that refers to the object is incorporated into a ^ timely presentation In the compound text, a copy of the object, 0 file, this compound will not be in G 1 i pboard unless the compound file is also updated with the latest changes to the original content of the object '2, * phase a ', This scrapbook can store the _ operating system maintains the "If you have operation" paste the last was copied " or •, cut &paste; paste it in the current program; solid: when you make it, it will be removed from the scrapbook In another -Program, ii: scrapbook information is allowed by-data ??? At this point, Yu Tai ^ program can read from the first operation, of course, including the equivalent w case, etc. inter-process communication is not limited To sum up the related technologies, the present invention aims at accelerating the existing non-web page modification code to make it web-based. A software web-based system and method, and the application software need not greatly Executed on a web browser to enable its application principle to refer to the software technology of inter-stroke communication (lpc—Process Communication), which is the ability of one task or program to communicate with other tasks or programs in a multi-tasking system. application

509850 V. Description of the invention (13) The software can communicate with the web browser so that it can be executed in the web browser. The system components and methods can enable general application software to display and execute in a web browser, and its logical operations are performed in a background program. For software programmers, the development process has been greatly reduced. For application software that wants to be web-based, Companies can reduce the time spent on research, development, debugging, and learning new technologies, and break through the limitations of existing web software.

As mentioned above, the "a software web-based system and method" of the present invention completely eliminates the shortcomings in practice, and indeed enhances the effectiveness. It is in line with the requirements of the patent for invention. . For those who need to know, the above are the specific embodiments of the "software web-based system and method" of the present invention and the applied technical principles. If the changes are made according to the concept of this creation, the functional effects still have not been exceeded. In the spirit covered by the manual and illustrations, Jun should confer to Chen Ming within the scope of this creation.

Page 509850 Brief description of the diagram The first diagram is a block diagram of the implementation field of the present invention; the second diagram is a block diagram of the operating system of the invention; the third diagram is the flowchart (1) of the invention; The fourth diagram is the flowchart (two) of the present invention; the fifth diagram is the network dynamic data exchange process of the present invention; the sixth diagram is the network dynamic data exchange process of the present invention; the seventh diagram is this The network dynamic data exchange process of the invention is constructed on different ends; the eighth diagram is a network dynamic data exchange process of the invention constructed on a single user terminal; the ninth to fifteenth diagrams are the invention Displayed on the user's computer terminal. #

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Claims (1)

509850 VI. Application Patent Scope 1. A software webpage method, which provides a remote host application software that can be controlled by a user terminal for simultaneous communication connection. The method includes the following steps. A. Provides an application software and webpage device. The server host is on the communication network; B. The client connects with the aforementioned server host through a web browser and automatically downloads the user interface part of the user interface that contains interactive components after the front end of the application software is combined with the aforementioned web-based device to the web browser. Device C. The aforementioned core part of the application software existing in the server host repeatedly confirms data transmission through the web-based device and the user interface of the user terminal that includes the web-based device; D. The aforementioned user interface section accepts input message data and transmits To the core part of the aforementioned application software; E. the core part of the aforementioned application software receives the message data and sends it to the aforementioned user interface part after processing; F. displays the result screen in the aforementioned web browser. 2. According to a software webpage method described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, where the webpage device is a software communication technology for inter-stroke communication Surgery. 3. According to a software webpage method described in item 2 of the scope of patent application, the software communication technology for inter-stroke communication is network dynamic data exchange. 4. According to a software webpage method described in item 3 of the scope of patent application Page 509850 6. The scope of the patent application, in which the dynamic network data exchange is constructed on the user enhanced interface. 0. A software webpage method described in item 1 of the scope of the patent application, where the interactive component is Active X Technology components. 6. According to a software webpage method described in item 5 of the scope of the patent application, the interactive components may be Jav a technical components. 7. According to a software webpage method described in item 1 of the scope of the patent application, the interactive components can be P1 ug I N technology components. 8. A software webpage method described in item 1 of the scope of patent application , After confirming in step D, at least one input logic channel, one output logic channel and one keep-linked logic channel are generated. 9. According to a software webpage method described in item 6 of the scope of the patent application, wherein the server host sends a message to the user via the linked channel every two seconds, if the user cannot receive the message or the server within two seconds The host cannot send a message to the client, which means that the server host is down or the client is down. An exception must be made. 10. According to a software webpage method described in item 6 of the scope of patent application, in step E, the input information of the user terminal is transmitted through the input logic channel. 1 1. According to a software webpage method described in item 6 of the scope of the patent application, after processing of the servo host message data in step F is transmitted via the output logic channel. 1 2. A software webpage method, which provides a remote host application software that can be controlled by the client at the same time. The method includes the following: Page 19, 509850 VI. Steps for applying for a patent: A. Provide a server host containing application software and a web-based device on the communication network; B. The client connects with the aforementioned server host through a web browser and automatically downloads the Integrated application software and web-based device; C. The user interface part of the aforementioned application software that includes interactive components after its front-end is integrated with the web-based device is displayed on the web browser D. The core part of the aforementioned application software repeatedly confirms the data transmission with the aforementioned user interface through a web-based device; E. The aforementioned user interface section accepts input message data and sends it to the aforementioned application software core part; F. The aforementioned application The core part of the software receives the message data and sends it to the aforementioned user interface part after processing. G. Display the result screen in the aforementioned web browser. 1 1 3. According to a software webpage method described in item 12 of the scope of the patent application, the webpage device is a software and communication technology for inter-stroke communication. 14. According to a software webpage method described in item 13 of the scope of patent application, the software communication technology for inter-stroke communication is dynamic data exchange. 15. According to a software webpage method described in Item 12 of the scope of the patent application, the interactive components are A c t i v e X technology components. 1 6. According to a software webpage described in item 15 of the scope of patent application Page 20 509850 VI. Patent Application Method, where the interactive element can be a Ja v a technical element. 17. According to a software webpage method described in item 12 of the scope of the patent application, the interactive component may be a Plug In technology component. 18. According to a software webpage method described in item 12 of the scope of the patent application, at least one input logical channel, one output logical channel, and a link-keeping logical channel are generated after confirmation in step D. 19. According to a software webpage method described in item 12 of the scope of the patent application, in step E, the input information of the user terminal is transmitted through the input logical channel. 20. According to a software webpage method described in Item 12 of the scope of patent application, after processing of the server host message data in step F, it is transmitted via the output logic channel. 21. A software web-based system, comprising: a server host including most application software, an interactive component, and a web-based device; at least one client, including a web browser; A communication connection enables the above-mentioned client terminal to be connected with the server host; the client terminal uses the web browser to connect with the server host through the communication network, and automatically downloads the aforementioned application software and integrates the front-end with the aforementioned web-based device The user interface part including the interactive components is on the web browser, and the core part of the server host application software is used to repeatedly transmit data through the web device and the aforementioned user interface, and the data is processed on the server host. The result is sent to the web browser of the client. Page 21 509850 VI. Scope of patent application 02. According to a software webpage method described in item 21 of the scope of patent application, the user can use the web browser to connect with the server host through the communication network. , Automatically download the application software that has been integrated with the web-based device. The user interface part of the front-end of the application software is displayed on the web browser, and the core part of the other application software that exists on the client-side is performed repeatedly through the web-based device. Data transmission, after the data is processed, the result screen is displayed in the web browser Page 22