Patent ID: 7574472

Claim:
A system for providing a semi real-time, automatically-updateable web page, the system comprising: a web server; a client computer device having a display and a web browser; a server script running on the web server, the server script being operative to request, and receive in response to the request, data information from a data information source and generate a client script based, at least in part, on the data information, and download the client script to the client computer device; and the web browser running on the client computer device being operative to enable the client computer device to interface with the web server through a network, the web browser receiving the client script from the web server and running the client script, whereby the display of the client computer device is updated to display the data information, wherein the server script runs in a loop, and wherein for each run of the loop, the server script sends requests for data information to the data information source.