Patent ID: 6081837
Filing Date: 2000-06-27
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
A system for controlling the transmission of information between a host computer and a remotely located client computer, the system comprising:a client computer which includes a browser application for viewing Web pages and is linked to a server computer by a network;a host computer which is linked to the server computer by a communication medium;the server computer comprising:a send/receive module receiving data that is transmitted from the host computer, the data representative of a host computer display screen having a function key-capable field that represents an incomplete list of items included in the host computer display screen;a parsing module, upon receipt of the data transmitted from the host computer by the server computer, parsing the data to locate the function key-capable field;a creation module creating, at the server computer, at least one instruction corresponding to the function key-capable field that when received by the Web browser causes a control and an incomplete list of items to be created and displayed in a Web page that represents the host computer display screen, the control being selectable to cause a complete list of items to be displayed in the Web page,the send/receive module transmitting the instruction to the client computer, receiving a command from the client computer with the command indicative of a user selection of the selectable control, sending a request for a complete list of items to the host computer, and receiving, at the server computer, additional data including information pertaining to the complete list of items from the host computer;the creation module displaying the additional data on a Web page that represents the host computer display screen; andthe send/receive module transmitting, from the server computer to the client computer, additional instructions that cause the Web browser to produce a second Web page containing the complete list of items from the host computer.