Patent ID: 7177918

Claim:
A method of processing multiframe data in a client/server computing environment, comprising steps of: maintaining, at a server in the client/server computing environment, for each frame of a plurality of frames comprising a multiframe layout, an indicator corresponding to the frame, wherein the corresponding indicator indicates whether the frame needs to be loaded; queuing, for reload processing at the server, a reference to each frame that needs to be loaded in the multiframe layout; and sending over a communication network, in a message from the server to a client, (1) content corresponding to a particular one of the frames and (2) data for one or more other frames whose corresponding indicator indicates that the one or more other frames need to be loaded, wherein: the queued references are processed, at the server, to identify the one or more other frames; the data for the one or more other frames causes the client to automatically send a subsequent request to the server, for each of the one or more other frames, for refreshed content of that other frame; and a minimal form of the content corresponding to the particular one of the frames is sent in the message when an ancestor of the particular one has a queued reference and data for the ancestor is included in the data for the one or more other frames.