Patent ID: 7836173

Claim:
An access monitoring and management system, comprising: at least one set of access terminals associated with a first communication network; and an application server also associated with the first communication network for exchanging information, wherein the application server includes a real-time management module configured to exchange event information with the set of access terminals over the first communications network; and a synoptic module configured to receive the event information from the real-time management module and to publish the event information on one or more monitoring user terminals through an Internet-type network, wherein the synoptic module comprises a cache memory storing temporarily the event information, the cache memory being accessible by the one or more monitoring user terminals for publication, the cache memory being unique for monitoring pages of a same type, wherein the synoptic module is configured to send publication code, HTML, or Javascript code, upon request of a user terminal of the one or more user monitoring terminals, the publication code implementing the steps of assigning all information subject to change and to be displayed in clear form to variables associated with a browser of the user terminal; providing, on a page displayed on the user terminal, a hidden frame that receives, through cyclic and automatic refresh, information that has changed in the cache memory, the hidden frame including code portions adapted to process the information received from the cache memory and to refresh the hidden frame automatically and cyclically.