Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Remote data accessing
Patent
1997-10-20
1999-09-14
Rinehart, Mark H.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Remote data accessing
709203, 707 4, 345357, G06F 1338, G06F 1517, G06F 1730, G06F 3033
Patent
active
059516410
DESCRIPTION:
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DESCRIPTION
The present invention relates to a process for accessing information received from a server. It also relates to a terminal implementing this process.
Consultation of the results of an interrogation session of a database managed by a server may prove lengthy and fastidious on a terminal when, with current consultation processes, it is generally necessary to scroll through a succession of information captured during a session, which is displayed on screen. This information includes unfiltered prompt messages issued by the server, requests submitted by the terminal user, and results or information received in response to these requests. The user must then locate the useful information within all the information, and must himself filter and optionally delete operational messages which are no longer useful.
The purpose of the invention is to overcome these drawbacks by proposing a process for accessing information received from at least one server, in response to requests sent to this server from a terminal, providing a terminal user with a greater facility for selectively accessing received information, thus achieving a saving in time and efficiency in database searches.
According to the invention, the access process including, during each communication session, a stage when information exchanges between the server and the terminal are captured and stored cumulatively, these information exchanges including prompt messages emitted by the server and received by the terminal, requests formulated by a user of said terminal in response to the receipt of a prompt message, information transmitted by the server, in response to a request, is characterized in that it also comprises: terminal, requests selectively stored during the session, from within a list of requests with a view to consulting information received in response to this request, each unfolding stage being followed by a stage for reading and displaying in the consultation window the stored information received in response to the said request, this information being displayed within the list of requests following the said request, and has been subject to a prior unfolding stage, with a view to masking the display in the consultation window of the information corresponding to the said selected request.
With the process according to the invention, it thus becomes possible, in the same consultation window, either to display a list or history containing only requests issued from the terminal, or this list with added information in response to one or more requests. In this way, the terminal user is able to "fold" the capture memory, while the list of requests in effect collects the folds of this memory. The user can at will instruct the memory to be unfolded in order to consult a given response to a request. This leads to enhanced legibility of the content of information and messages captured during the session. Response information can also be displayed in new windows opened for that purpose, for example for a FOCUS type command.
There are admittedly already file consultation processes implementing opening and closing stages equivalent to the unfolding and folding implemented in the process according to the invention. Indeed, there are file managers in window-mode operating systems. However, these consultation processes apply to files or documents already constituted and filed within a tree structure.
The merit of the present invention thus resides in the fact that it has combined the features of current file management modes and the specific constraints and characteristics of exchanges between a server and a terminal, with the aim of providing the user with consultation of responses to a request which is easier than with current processes.
In a first operating mode of the process according to the invention, the request identification and selective storage stages comprise: server, and response to each prompt message detected.
This first mode corresponds to the case where prompt messages issued by the server to which the terminal is connected are r
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Menard Arnaud
Spinelli Olivier
Questel
Rinehart Mark H.
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