Patent ID: 7987237
Filing Date: 2011-07-26
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. An information processing system in which a server apparatus and a client apparatus are connected via a network, wherein the server apparatus is configured to make the client apparatus display a plurality of screen data by transmitting the plurality of screen data to the client apparatus, and the client apparatus is configured to transmit input information input by using each of the plurality of screen data displayed on the display to the server apparatus, wherein the server apparatus comprises: a storage unit configured to maintain, for each of the plurality of screen data, a variable having either a first value indicating that input information, which is input by using corresponding screen data, is permitted to be stored into a predetermined memory region, or a second value indicating that the input information is not permitted to be stored into the predetermined memory region; an updating unit configured to update the variable corresponding to first screen data and maintained in said storage unit from the first value to the second value, in response to receiving a request for second screen data from the client apparatus, which is subsequent to the first screen data, after transmission of the first screen data to the client apparatus; and a storage control unit configured to, when input information is received from the client apparatus, store the input information into the predetermined memory region if the variable corresponding to screen data used to input the received input information and maintained in said storage unit has the first value, and to not store the received input information if the variable corresponding to the screen data used to input the received input information has the second value, and wherein the client apparatus comprises: a transmission unit configured to transmit, after the first screen data is received from the server apparatus, first input information, which is input using the first screen data, to the server apparatus; and a requesting unit configured to transmit, after the first input information is transmitted to the server apparatus by the transmission unit, the request for the second screen data to the server apparatus.