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Patent US8108492 - Web application network portal - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inAdvanced Patent SearchPatentsThe present invention provides a method and apparatus for providing real-time, two-way transactional capabilities on the Web. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention discloses a method for enabling object routing, the method comprising the steps of creating a virtual information store containing...http://www.google.com/patents/US8108492?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8108492 - Web application network portalAdvanced Patent SearchPublication numberUS8108492 B2Publication typeGrantApplication numberUS 12/628,060Publication dateJan 31, 2012Filing dateNov 30, 2009Priority dateNov 13, 1995Also published asUS8037158, US8244833, US8346894, US8407318, US20080091801, US20100275124, US20100306065, US20100306102, US20100306343Publication number12628060, 628060, US 8108492 B2, US 8108492B2, US-B2-8108492, US8108492 B2, US8108492B2InventorsLakshmi ArunachalamOriginal AssigneeLakshmi ArunachalamExport CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (105), Non-Patent Citations (261), Referenced by (1), Classifications (21), Legal Events (2) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetWeb application network portalUS 8108492 B2Abstract The present invention provides a method and apparatus for providing real-time, two-way transactional capabilities on the Web. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention discloses a method for enabling object routing, the method comprising the steps of creating a virtual information store containing information entries and attributes associating each of the information entries and the attributes with an object identity, and assigning a unique network address to each of the object identities. A method is also disclosed for enabling service management of the value-added network service, to perform OAM&P functions on the services network.
a Web server, including a processor and a memory, for offering one or more Web applications as respective point-of-service applications in a point-of-service application list on a Web page;
each Web application of the one or more Web applications for requesting a real-time Web transaction;
a value-added network (VAN) switch running on top of a facilities network selected from a group consisting of the World Wide Web, the Internet and an e-mail network, the VAN switch for enabling the real-time Web transactions from the one or more Web applications;
a service network running on top of the facilities network for connecting through the Web server to a back-end transactional application; and
a computer system executing the Back-end transactional application for processing the transaction request in real-time.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the VAN switch is an application layer switch in the application layer of the OSI model.
3. The system of claim 1, wherein the VAN switch enables the switching to Web merchant services in response to a Web server's receipt of a selection of one of the point-of-service Web applications corresponding to the Web merchant services from the point-of-service application list on the Web page.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein each Web merchant service includes one of the one or more Web applications offered as a VAN service, utilizing the VAN switch.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein each Web application of the one or more Web applications is a value-added network (VAN) service or online service atop the Web, utilizing the VAN switch.
6. The system of claim 1, wherein the service network includes the one or more Web applications and wherein the service network manages the flow of real-time Web transactions from the one or more Web applications and includes the VAN switch.
7. The system of claim 1, wherein the Web server is configured to receive a Web transaction request and wherein the Web transaction request is a request to perform one of the real-time Web transactions from one of the one or more Web applications, utilizing the VAN switch.
a computer system executing a back-end transactional application for processing the transaction request in real-time, wherein said computer system includes a data repository, wherein the data repository is a data repository to store banking data, and wherein retrieving data includes retrieving banking data to complete a real-time Web banking transaction as one of the real-time Web transactions from a banking Web application as one of the one or more Web applications.
9. The system of claim 1, further comprising the one or more Web applications offered as software-as-a-service atop the Web.
10. A method for performing real-time Web transactions from a Web application, comprising:
receiving a request at a Web server, including a processor and a memory, for a real-time Web transaction from a Web application on a Web page, wherein the Web server is configured to hand over the request to a Value Added Network (VAN) switch;
offering a plurality of Web applications including the Web application on a Web page, upon receipt from a Web server a selection of the Web application from the offered Web applications, the Web application corresponding to a respective back-end transactional application, wherein the back-end transactional application is an application running at the back-office server of one or more Web merchants or at the back-end;
receiving a request for Web merchant services upon receipt by a Web server a selection of the Web application, wherein the request for Web merchant services is a request to connect to the selected back-end transactional application to perform an interactive real-time Web transaction from the Web application, wherein the transactional application is an on-line service provided by one or more Web merchants or the back-end;
switching utilizing the VAN switch to the back-end transactional application in response to receiving the request from the Web server;
providing distributed control of a service network, operating within the boundaries of an IP-based facilities network;
connecting to specified ones of the Web merchant services or to back-end services, wherein the connection to the Web merchant services or back-end transactional services is managed;
accessing data from a host or data repository coupled to the back office server of one or more Web merchants or to the back-end transactional application, wherein the back office server or back-end is coupled to legacy databases and other data repositories that are utilized by the one or more of the Web merchants or the back-end transactional application to store data; and
completing the real-time Web transactions from the Web application.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein the real-time Web transactions are Web transactions from the Web application accessing a value-added network service.
12. A computer-implemented system, operated by a business entity comprising:
a Web application network portal, wherein the portal includes memory and a processor and one or more Web applications offered respectively by one or more Web merchants or other service providers, or by multiple sub-entities of the business entity who have agreed to cooperate to provide on-line Value Added Network (VAN) services atop the Web for access by employees of the business entity;
a list of one or more point-of-service employee Web applications on a Web page offered by the business entity that operates the portal, said portal allowing access to the one or more point-of-service applications on the Web page from said list, and wherein the portal offers the one or more point-of-service applications as on-line services on the Web page, and further wherein the portal is operated by the business entity over a service network running on top of a facilities network, the facilities network being selected from a group consisting of: the World Wide Web, the Internet and email networks, said service network including a VAN Switch;
one or more back-end transactional applications running at one or more back-end host computers, corresponding, respectively to the one or more point-of-service applications accessed, to complete a real-time Web transaction from the Web application on the Web page.
13. The portal of claim 12, wherein the one or more Web applications include a plurality of point-of-service applications on the Web page, wherein the business entity and the sub-entities offer Web applications which are selected from a group consisting of payroll Web applications, human resources Web applications, expense report Web applications, time card Web applications, travel Web applications, vacation Web applications, financial Web applications and sales commission Web applications.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is a divisional and claims the priority benefit of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/980,185 filed Oct. 30, 2007 now U.S. Pat. No. 8,037,158, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/792,323, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,340,506, filed Feb. 23, 2001, which is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/296,207, filed Apr. 21, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,212,556, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/879,958, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,987,500, filed Jun. 20, 1997, which is a divisional and claims the priority benefit of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/700,726, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,778,178, filed Aug. 5, 1996, which claims the priority benefit of U.S. provisional application 60/006,634 filed Nov. 13, 1995. This application also claims benefit under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) to U.S. Provisional application Ser. No. 60/006,634 filed Nov. 13, 1995. The following applications are related applications: application Ser. Nos. 09/863,704; 12/628,066; 12/628,068; 12/628,069, 12/932,758 and 60/206,422.
With the Internet and the World Wide Web (�the Web�) evolving rapidly as a viable consumer medium for electronic commerce, new on-line services are emerging to fill the needs of on-line users. An Internet user today can browse on the Web via the use of a Web browser. Web browsers are software interfaces that run on Web clients to allow access to Web servers via a simple user interface. A Web user's capabilities today from a Web browser are, however, extremely limited. The user can perform one-way, browse-only interactions. Additionally, the user has limited �deferred� transactional capabilities, namely electronic mail (e-mail) capabilities. E-mail capabilities are referred to as �deferred transactions� because the consumer's request is not processed until the e-mail is received, read, and the person or system reading the e-mail executes the transaction. This transaction is thus not performed in real-time.
FIG. 1A illustrates typical user interactions on the Web today. User 100 sends out a request from Web browser 102 in the form of a universal resource locator (URL) 101 in the following manner: http://www.car.com. URL 101 is processed by Web browser 102 that determines the URL corresponds to car dealer Web page 105, on car dealer Web server 104. Web browser 102 then establishes browse link 103 to car dealer Web page 105. User 100 can browse Web page 105 and select �hot links� to jump to other locations in Web page 105, or to move to other Web pages on the Web. This interaction is typically a browse-only interaction. Under limited circumstances, the user may be able to fill out a form on car dealer Web page 105, and e-mail the form to car dealer Web server 104. This interaction is still strictly a one-way browse mode communications link, with the e-mail providing limited, deferred transactional capabilities.
Under limited circumstances, a user may have access to two-way services on the Web via Common Gateway Interface (CGI) applications. CGI is a standard interface for running external programs on a Web server. It allows Web servers to create documents dynamically when the server receives a request from the Web browser. When the Web server receives a request for a document, the Web server dynamically executes the appropriate CGI script and transmits the output of the execution back to the requesting Web browser. This interaction can thus be termed a �two-way� transaction. It is a severely limited transaction, however, because each CGI application is customized for a particular type of application or service.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for providing real-time, two-way transactional capabilities on the Web. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention discloses a configurable value-added network switch for enabling real-time transactions on the World Wide Web. The configurable value added network switch comprises means for switching to a transactional application in response to a user specification from a World Wide Web application, means for transmitting a transaction request from the transactional application, and means for processing the transaction request.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The features and advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the accompanying drawings and from the detailed description of the present invention as set forth below.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for configurable value-added network switching and object routing and management. �Web browser� as used in the context of the present specification includes conventional Web browsers such as NCSA Mosaic� from NCSA and Netscape Mosaic� from Netscape�. The present invention is independent of the Web browser being utilized and the user can use any Web browser, without modifications to the Web browser. In the following detailed description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. It will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art, however, that these specific details need not be used to practice the present invention. In other instances, well-known structures, interfaces and processes have not been shown in detail in order not to unnecessarily obscure the present invention.
FIG. 2 illustrates a typical computer system 200 in which the present invention operates. The preferred embodiment of the present invention is implemented on an IBM� Personal Computer manufactured by IBM Corporation of Armonk, N.Y. Alternate embodiments may be implemented on a Macintosh� computer manufactured by Apple� Computer, Incorporated of Cupertino, Calif. It will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that other alternative computer system architectures may also be employed.
Processor 202 may be any of a wide variety of general purpose processors or microprocessors such as the Pentium� microprocessor manufactured by Intel� Corporation or the Motorola� 68040 or Power PC� brand microprocessor manufactured by manufactured by Motorola� Corporation. It will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art, however, that other varieties of processors may also be used in a particular computer system. Display device 205 may be a liquid crystal device, cathode ray tube (CRT), or other suitable display device. Mass storage device 207 may be a conventional hard disk drive, floppy disk drive, CD-ROM drive, or other magnetic or optical data storage device for reading and writing information stored on a hard disk, a floppy disk, a CD-ROM a magnetic tape, or other magnetic or optical data storage medium. Data storage medium 208 may be a hard disk, a floppy disk, a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, or other magnetic or optical data storage medium.
FIG. 3 illustrates the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model. OSI Model 300 is an international standard that provides a common basis for the coordination of standards development, for the purpose of systems interconnection. The present invention is implemented to function as a routing switch within the �application layer� of the OSI model. The model defines seven layers, with each layer communicating with its peer layer in another node through the use of a protocol. Physical layer 301 is the lowest layer, with responsibility to transmit unstructured bits across a link. Data link layer 302 is the next layer above physical layer 301. Data link layer 302 transmits chunks across the link and deals with problems like checksumming to detect data corruption, orderly coordination of the use of shared media and addressing when multiple systems are reachable. Network bridges operate within data link layer 302.
FIG. 4A illustrates conceptually the user value chain as it exists today. The user value chain in FIG. 4A depicts the types of transactions that are performed today, and the channels through which the transactions are performed. A �transaction� for the purposes of the present invention includes any type of commercial or other type of interaction that a user may want to perform. Examples of transactions include a deposit into a bank account, a request for a loan from a bank, a purchase of a car from a car dealership or a purchase of a car with financing from a bank. A large variety of other transactions are also possible.
A typical user transaction today may involve user 100 walking into a bank or driving up to a teller machine, and interacting with a live bank teller, or automated teller machine (ATM) software applications. Alternatively, user 100 can perform the same transaction by using a personal computer (PC), activating application software on his PC to access his bank account, and dialing into the bank via a modem line. If user 100 is a Web user, however, there is no current mechanism for performing a robust, real-time transaction with the bank, as illustrated in FIG. 4A. CGI scripts provide only limited two-way capabilities, as described above. Thus, due to this lack of a robust mechanism by which real-time Web transactions can be performed, the bank is unable to be a true �Web merchant,� namely a merchant capable of providing complete transactional services on the Web.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, as illustrated in FIG. 4B, each merchant that desires to be a Web merchant can provide real-time transactional capabilities to users who desire to access the merchants' services via the Web. This embodiment includes a service network running on top of a facilities network, namely the Internet, the Web or e-mail networks. For the purposes of this application, users are described as utilizing PC's to access the Web via Web server �switching� sites. (Switching is described in more detail below). Users may also utilize other personal devices such as network computers or cellular devices to access the merchants' services via appropriate switching sites. These switching sites include non-Web network computer sites and cellular provider sites. Five components interact to provide this service network functionality, namely an exchange, an operator agent, a management agent, a management manager and a graphical user interface. All five components are described in more detail below.
As illustrated in FIG. 5A, user 100 accesses Web server 104. Having accessed Web server 104, user 100 can decide that he desires to perform real-time transactions. When Web server 104 receives user 100's indication that he desires to perform real-time transactions, the request is handed over to an exchange component. Thus, from Web page 105, for example, user 100 can select button 500, entitled �Transactions� and Web server 104 hands user 100's request over to the exchange component. The button and the title can be replaced by any mechanism that can instruct a Web server to hand over the consumer's request to the exchange component.
FIG. 5B illustrates exchange 501. Exchange 501 comprises Web page 505 and point-of-service (POSvc) applications 510. Exchange 501 also conceptually includes a switching component and an object routing component (described in more detail below). POSvc applications 510 are transactional applications, namely applications that are designed to incorporate and take advantage of the capabilities provided by the present invention. Although exchange 501 is depicted as residing on Web server 104, the exchange can also reside on a separate computer system that resides on the Internet and has an Internet address. Exchange 501 may also include operator agent 503 that interacts with a management manager (described in more detail below). Exchange 501 creates and allows for the management (or distributed control) of a service network, operating within the boundaries of an IP-based facilities network. Thus, exchange 501 and a management agent component, described in more detail below, under the headings �VAN Switch and Object Routing,� together perform the switching, object routing, application and service management functions according to one embodiment of the present invention.
Exchange 501 processes the consumer's request and displays an exchange Web page 505 that includes a list of POSvc applications 510 accessible by exchange 501. A POSvc application is an application that can execute the type of transaction that the user may be interested in performing. The POSvc list is displayed via the graphical user interface component. One embodiment of the present invention supports HyperText Markup Language as the graphical user interface component. Virtual Reality Markup Language and Java� are also supported by this embodiment. A variety of other graphical user interface standards can also be utilized to implement the graphical user interface.
Once Bank POSvc application 510 has been activated, user 100 will be able to connect to Bank services and utilize the application to perform banking transactions, thus accessing data from a host or data repository 575 in the Bank �Back Office.� The Bank Back Office comprises legacy databases and other data repositories that are utilized by the Bank to store its data. This connection between user 100 and Bank services is managed by exchange 501. As illustrated in FIG. 5D, once the connection is made between Bank POSvc application 510(1), for example, and Bank services, an operator agent on Web server 104 may be activated to ensure the availability of distributed functions and capabilities.
Bank can also decide to provide other types of services in POSvc application 510(1). For example, Bank may agree with Car dealership to allow Bank customers to purchase a car from that dealer, request a car loan from Bank, and have the entire transaction performed on the Web, as illustrated in FIG. 5E. In this instance, the transactions are not merely two-way, between the user and Bank, but three-way, amongst the consumer, Bank and Car dealership. According to one aspect of the present invention, this three-way transaction can be expanded to n-way transactions, where n represents a predetermined number of merchants or other service providers who have agreed to cooperate to provide services to users. The present invention therefore allows for �any-to-any� communication and transactions on the Web, thus facilitating a large, flexible variety of robust, real-time transactions on the Web.
VAN switch 520 provides multi-protocol object routing, depending upon the specific VAN services chosen. This multi-protocol object routing is provided via a proprietary protocol, TransWeb� Management Protocol (TMP). TMP incorporates the same security features as the traditional Simple Network Management Protocol, SNMP. It also allows for the integration of other traditional security mechanisms, including RSA security mechanisms.
One embodiment of the present invention utilizes TMP and distributed on-line service information bases (DOLSIBs) to perform object routing. Alternatively, TMP can incorporate s-HTTP, Java�, the WinSock API or ORB with DOLSIBs to perform object routing. DOLSIBs are virtual information stores optimized for networking. All information entries and attributes in a DOLSIB virtual information store are associated with a networked object identity. The networked object identity identifies the information entries and attributes in the DOLSIB as individual networked objects, and each networked object is assigned an Internet address. The Internet address is assigned based on the IP address of the node at which the networked object resides.
For example, in FIG. 5A, Web server 104 is a node on the Internet, with an IP address. All networked object associated with Web server 104 will therefore be assigned an Internet address based on the Web server 104's IP address. These networked objects thus �branch� from the node, creating a hierarchical tree structure. The Internet address for each networked object in the tree essentially establishes the individual object as an �IP-reachable� or accessible node on the Internet. TMP utilizes this Internet address to uniquely identify and access the object from the DOLSIB. FIG. 6B illustrates an example of this hierarchical addressing tree structure.
As described above, exchange 501 and management agent 601 together constitute a VAN switch. FIG. 7 illustrates conceptually the layered architecture of VAN switch 520. Specifically, boundary service 701 provides the interfaces between VAN switch 520, the Internet and the Web, and multi-media end user devices such as PCs, televisions or telephones. Boundary service 701 also provides the interface to the on-line service provider. A user can connect to a local application, namely one accessible via a local VAN switch, or be routed or �switched� to an application accessible via a remote VAN switch.
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