Patent ID: 7058700

Claim:
A method for updating a configuration page on a user side of an Internet-based configuration system without having to contact a server side of the configuration system, the method comprising: receiving the configuration page from the server side along with delta configuration pace information associated with the configuration page, the delta configuration page information including update information usable to update the configuration page with one or more changes without having to contact the server side of the configuration system; responsive to the user side receiving a user input that is associated with delta configuration page information available at the user side after receiving the delta configuration page information and the configuration page, retrieving the delta configuration page information without having to contact the server side of the configuration system; and updating the configuration page with a change included in the update information of the delta configuration page information, wherein the configuration page is updated without having to contact the server side of the configuration system after receiving the delta configuration page information and the configuration page, wherein the delta configuration page information is contained in a look-up table pursuant to an indexing scheme and is embedded in the configuration page.