Patent ID: 7912917

Claim:
A method for reusing stored forms data in a webpage, the method comprising: providing access to a first webpage via a portal User Interface (UI) on a display on a client computer, wherein the first webpage includes a data entry form and the portal UI enables access to the first web page and at least a second web page via a single web interface; receiving, from a user of the client computer, a data entry input of forms data into the data entry form of the first webpage; in response to a request to access to the second web page from the portal UI following entry of the forms data into the data entry form of the first webpage, performing an unload event, which dumps the forms data of the first webpage into a scripted set of code; associating a name of the first webpage with the forms data, wherein the forms data is uniquely identified as belonging to the first webpage storing the forms data along with the name of the first web page associated with the forms data in a server; providing access to the second webpage via the portal UI; presenting the second webpage via the portal UI, wherein the first webpage is replaced in the display of the portal UI by the second webpage; in response to receipt of an input representing a request to return to the first webpage within the portal UI: forwarding the request to the server along with an associated request for the forms data that was earlier stored in the server; initiating the creating in the server of a populated first webpage by the server populating the first webpage with the forms data that was received from the user of the client computer and was stored in the server with the name of the first webpage associated therewith; receiving from the server a display of the first webpage, along with the stored forms data, which re-populates the first webpage within the portal UI; and returning the populated first webpage to the portal UI at the client computer; wherein the forms data is correctly identified and retrieved for populating the first webpage through an association of correct forms data and the name of the first webpage.