Patent ID: 6370570
Filing Date: 2002-04-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method of making a hypermedium page interactive, the hypermedium page displayed by a network browser, comprising the steps of:a) activating a hyperlink on the hypermedium page, the hyperlink corresponding to an application program; b) accessing a hyperlink configuration file associated with the hyperlink, the hyperlink configuration file identifying a client agent and a network address for a server storing the application program; c) starting the client agent identified in the hyperlink configuration file to obtain the network address from the hyperlink; configuration file; d) establishing communications by the client agent with a server agent located on the server associated with the network address obtained from the hyperlink configuration file; and e) executing the application program on the server in response to a signal from the server agent, the server agent providing the signal in response to a communication from the client agent.