Patent ID: 6385644
Filing Date: 2002-05-07
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04M,Y10S

Abstract:
A centralized inbox system for providing on-line reporting, presentation, and notifications to a client workstation from one or more Intranet application services over an Internet/Intranet network, the system comprising:a client browser application located at the client workstation for enabling interactive web-based communications with the inbox system and providing an integrated interface to the one or more Intranet application services, the client workstation identified with a customer, the client browser application further including an inbox client, the inbox client launched by the client browser application; at least one secure server for managing client sessions over the Internet/Intranet network, the secure server supporting one or more first secure socket connections enabling encrypted communication between the client browser application and the secure server; one or more application servers associated with the one or more Intranet application services, the application servers generating customer specific data for forwarding; an inbox server for storing and maintaining the customer specific data, the data including report data and notification data received from the one or more Intranet application servers, the inbox server also storing a metadata description of the report data, the metadata representing report standards and options for customizing the report standards, wherein the report data and the metadata associated with the report data may be downloaded to the client browser application via the secure server for generation of reports according to the metatdata description, and presentation of the reports to the customer at the client workstation; and the inbox server further storing a notification alert received from the one or more application servers for enabling the inbox client to retrieve and present the notification alert to the customer at the client workstation.