Patent ID: 7480698

Claim:
A method of updating event data on a page of a computing environment, said method comprising: automatically, periodically retrieving by a browser server event data using a refresh frame of a page displayed by the browser, the refresh frame being part of a frameset of the browser, the frameset including the refresh frame and a data frame, the refresh frame being a hidden, zero-width frame and the data frame being a visible frame including an application interface, and the event data being updated information associated with only a portion of the data frame; updating by the browser only the portion of the data frame of the page with event data automatically retrieved using the refresh frame, the updating including employing code understood natively by the browser, wherein the portion of the data frame updated is the portion of the data frame to which the event data is associated, and comprises at least one element of the data frame selectively chosen based on the event data, the portion of the data frame updated being less than the entire data frame; and wherein the frameset comprises the refresh frame and a plurality of data frames, and wherein one data frame of the plurality of data frames is a visible frame at a time as a user navigates across the plurality of data frames, the plurality of data frames including at least one static data frame and at least one other data frame, and wherein the automatically, periodically retrieving by the browser server event data using the refresh frame comprises automatically, periodically retrieving server event data for the other data frame of the at least one other data frame of the plurality of data frames only when the other data frame is the visible frame.