Patent ID: 6480883
Filing Date: 2002-11-12
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A real-time information transmission system for transmitting information in real time from a server to a client, the system comprising:determination means for determining, on the basis of an information transmission request from the client to the server, whether the request is a page request or an event request; page transmission means for transmitting, if the determination means has determined that the request is the page request, information of the requested page only once from the server to the client at an originating point of the page request; event generating means for generating events; and event transmission means for transmitting, when the determination means has determined that the request is the event request, those of the events generated by the event generating means which are associated with the event request, from the server to the client at an originating point of the information transmission request in response to the event request issued once.