Independently refreshing a plurality of portlets in a portal page by using a refresh tag embedded in portlet markup in each portlet to call a refresh servlet to write a refresh controller

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10289745-B2
Application number	US-201213424882-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 20, 2012
Priority date	Jun 30, 2005
Publication date	May 14, 2019
Grant date	May 14, 2019

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to portlet content refreshing and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and apparatus for independently refreshing portlet content in a portal view. In an embodiment of the invention, a system for refreshing portlet content in a portal view can include a portal server configured to render a portal page, a portlet aggregator configured to provide portlet markup for different portlets in different refresh controllers having independently refreshable portions, and a refresh servlet coupled to the portlet aggregator that includes programming to configure the portal page with the different refresh controllers.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method, performed within a portal server, of aggregating a portal page including a plurality of different portlets, comprising:
refreshing, independently, each of the plurality of different portlets using a plurality of different refresh controllers, wherein
each of the plurality of different refresh controllers
is, respectively, associated with one of the plurality of different portlets, and
controls a refresh rate of the one of the plurality of different portlets,

the refresh rate for a particular portlet within the plurality portlets is derived using a refresh tag embedded in portlet markup, and
the refresh tag calls a refresh servlet to write a particular refresh controller associated with the particular portlet using parameters provided by the refresh tag.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein
a refresh rate associated with a first of the plurality of different portlets is independent of a refresh rate associated with a second of the plurality of different portlets.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein
each of the plurality of different refresh controllers is linked, respectively, to a different one of a plurality of hidden frame within the portal page.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein
the plurality of hidden frames reference addresses of content within the portlets to be refreshed.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising
pushing the portal page to a client computer system.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein
each of the plurality of different refresh controllers includes a refresh script, and
the refresh script controls the refresh rate of the portlet.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein
each of the plurality of different refresh controllers, consistent with the refresh rate associated with the respective refresh controller, writes content to the portal page.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein
a particular one of the plurality of different portlets includes a plurality of refreshed elements, and
a refresh controller associated with the particular one of the plurality of different portlets is linked with a plurality of hidden frames respectively associated with the plurality of refreshed elements.

9. A method, performed within a portal server, of aggregating a portal page including a plurality of different portlets, comprising:
refreshing, independently, each of the plurality of different portlet elements using a plurality of different refresh controllers, wherein
each of the plurality of different refresh controllers
is, respectively, associated with one of the plurality of different portlet elements, and
controls a refresh rate of the one of the plurality of different portlet elements,

a portlet element is a refreshable element within a portlet,
the refresh rate for a particular portlet within the plurality portlets is derived using a refresh tag embedded in portlet markup, and
the refresh tag calls a refresh servlet to write a particular refresh controller associated with the particular portlet using parameters provided by the refresh tag.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein
a refresh rate associated with a first of the plurality of different portlet elements is independent of a refresh rate associated with a second of the plurality of different portlet elements.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein
each of the plurality of different refresh controllers is linked, respectively, to a different one of a plurality of hidden frames within the portal page.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein
the plurality of hidden frames reference addresses of content within the portlets to be refreshed.

13. The method of claim 9 , further comprising
pushing the portal page to a client computer system.

14. The method of claim 9 , wherein
each of the plurality of different refresh controllers includes a refresh script, and
the refresh script controls the refresh rate of the portlet element.

15. The method of claim 9 , wherein
each of the plurality of different refresh controllers, consistent with the refresh rate associated with the respective refresh controller, writes content to the portal page.

Assignees

• Lection David B
• Masselle Eric L
• Salahshoor Mohamad R
• IBM

Inventors

• Lection David B
• Masselle Eric L
• Salahshoor Mohamad R

Classifications

• G06F16/958 Primary

  Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking · CPC title

• G06F16/93

  Document management systems · CPC title

• G06F17/30011

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/3089 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic