Patent ID: 8606853
Filing Date: 2013-12-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for displaying dialog boxes on a client computer system, the method comprising: (a) when it is determined by a server computer system that a first dialog box is to be displayed on the client computer system, transmitting first dialog data and first dialog state data from the server computer system to the client computer system, in order to prompt the client computer system to display the first dialog box in accordance with the first dialog data and first dialog state data and to make the first dialog box a currently active dialog box; (b) receiving, at the server computer system and from the client computer system, current dialog state data associated with the currently active dialog box, following a registered change event detected via the client computer system; (c) processing, via the server computer system and independent from the client computer system, a dialog function associated with the received current dialog state data; and (d) when the current dialog state data indicates that a new sub-dialog box is to be displayed, as determined by the server computer system, using the server computer system to: otherwise transmitting to the client computer system any updated dialog data and dialog state data, in order to prompt the client computer system to correspondingly update the display of the currently active dialog box.