Patent ID: 8112473

Claim:
A method of updating a browser application frame, the method comprising: monitoring a user input action within a browser application frame of a client-side web application user interface to detect a user event; encoding control characteristics of the user event into an extension of a respective, predetermined Uniform Resource Locator (URL) addressing a server-side web application; generating a request at the browser application frame displaying content, the request generated in response to the user event, wherein the request includes the URL and an instruction that is independent of the content displayed at the browser application frame; instructing a user-hidden frame of the client-side web application to send the request to the server-side web application, receiving a predetermined server response comprising an executable display programming element at the user-hidden frame together with response parameters generated by the server-side web application; and executing the executable display programming element from within the user-hidden frame, wherein a predetermined portion of content displayed at the browser application frame is updated according to program logic of the server-side web application in response to executing the executable display programming element.