Patent ID: 6226654
Filing Date: 2001-05-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A document based GUI (graphical user interface) for use on a client computer that is networked with server computers, the GUI comprising:GUI documents that collectively enable a user of the client computer to initiate specific operations performed on the client computer and collectively define an entire application executed on the client computer, the GUI documents each being located at the client computer or one of the server computers and including a first GUI document and a second GUI document, the first GUI document including a link that, when displayed and selected, provides a link to the second GUI document, the second GUI document including an applet that (a) when executed, generates a corresponding interactive image, and (b) when the corresponding interactive image is displayed and acted on, is invoked to perform a corresponding one of the specific operations; anda browser that runs on the client computer and that, when the first GUI document is loaded in and displayed on the client computer and the first GUI document's link is displayed on and selected by the user with the client computer, (a) loads, if not already loaded, the second GUI document in the client computer, (b) displays the second GUI document on the client computer by executing the second GUI document's applet on the client computer and displaying the corresponding interactive image on the client computer, and (c) invokes the second GUI document's applet to perform the corresponding specific operation when the user acts on the corresponding interactive image with the client computer.