(12) United States Patent
`Hiitsch et a].
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`(10) Patent N0.:
`(45) Date of Patent:
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`US 7,269,664 B2
`Sep. 11,2007
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`US007269664B2
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`(54) NETWORK PORTAL SYSTEM AND
`METHODS
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`(75) Inventors: Matthias Hiitsch, Hamburg (DE); Ralf
`Hofmann, Hamburg (DE); Kai
`Sommerfeld, Hamburg (DE)
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`(73) Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
`(Us)
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`EP
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`( * ) Notice:
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`Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this
`patent is extended or adjusted under 35
`U.S.C. 154(b) by 644 days.
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`(21) Appl. No.: 09/759,740
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`(22) Filed:
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`Jan. 12, 2001
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`(65)
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`(30)
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`Prior Publication Data
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`US 2001/0034771 A1
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`Oct. 25, 2001
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`Foreign Application Priority Data
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`Jan. 14, 2000
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`(EP) ................................ .. 00100738
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`(51) Int. Cl.
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`G06F 15/16
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`G09G 5/00
`(52) US. Cl. .................... .. 709/246; 345/672; 707/100;
`707/3; 715/513; 715/514
`(58) Field of Classi?cation Search ................... .. None
`See application ?le for complete search history.
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`(56)
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`ABSTRACT
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`A network portal system includes a Web-top manager and a
`universal content broker system. The Web-top manager is
`con?gured to receive a content request from a user device,
`Where the content request includes a content provider iden
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`Web-top manager. The universal content broker system
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`NETWORK PORTAL SYSTEM AND
`METHODS
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`BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
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`1. Field of the Invention
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`This invention relates generally to network systems and in
`particular to network portal systems
`2. Description of Related Art
`Laptop and notebook computers abound, virtually every
`enterprise in every business sector uses e-mail for internal
`and external communications, mobile phones are common-
`place, and many people carry personal digital assistants
`(PDAs) with wireless communication capability. Internet
`cafes can be found in almost every city, airports routinely
`have Internet kiosks, and most hotel rooms come equipped
`with data communication facilities.
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`With these developments come limitations and frustra-
`tions. Laptops and notebooks frequently require that special
`applications be installed. If work needs to be done when that
`particular machine is not available, the work must be post-
`poned. In addition, there are employees without laptops who
`nonetheless need to access information and applications
`when they are away from the office.
`Data on laptops must be synchronized with data on the
`enterprise’s central computers. Before employees can work
`on their laptops, they must be certain that they have the latest
`information, and that after they have finished, the centrally
`housed information must be updated.
`Functionality available from mobile phones and PDAs is
`typically limited to general information services, such as
`stock quotes and airline schedules.
`Many enterprises have realized significant benefits from
`client/server technology, but this typically entails the instal-
`lation of specialized software on the client systems, thereby
`limiting access to only those devices with the specialized
`software as well as placing a maintenance burden on the
`organization, which must propagate changes and updates to
`all individual workstations, laptop computers, etc.
`As organizations implemented individual applications,
`frequently in different
`languages, functionality and data
`often became fragmented. A growing amount of valuable
`information is available from web-based service providers.
`However, locating the information can be time-consuming,
`and the information comes in as isolated pieces of data.
`As a result, people are frequently not able to do the work
`they need to do when they want to do it. The information
`would be more valuable if the information were made
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`available to corporate applications and merged with enter-
`prise data.
`Competitive business pressures make this issue even more
`urgent. Not
`long ago,
`it was perfectly acceptable,
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`example, for a salesperson to return to a customer’s office
`the following day with requested information. Today, how-
`ever, immediacy and convenience are the keywords; with
`the Internet, people have become accustomed to accessing
`data on demand and to taking action whenever they wish.
`Any work that has to be postponed because the salesperson
`could not access applications or data can mean lost oppor-
`tunity.
`Enterprise portals are being developed to close the gap
`between what users would like to do and what technological
`constraints permit them to do. While the rapid rate of recent
`technological innovation has been exciting, there are many
`attendant restrictions.
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`Enterprise portals allow users to access a wide variety of
`applications, services, and data through a single entry point
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`(the portal). Portal computing is a network solution that aims
`to make recent technological advances serve the way people
`actually work-r would like to work. Recognizing the advan-
`tages of portal computing, several service providers have
`already embraced the concept, albeit in a limited sense,
`offering their customers a growing number of application
`services. Notable examples include Yahool, Excite, and
`Lycos. Although these all started as search engines, they
`now offer such capabilities as e-mail, stock quotes, calendar
`facilities, etc.
`Quick to join the bandwagon, many suppliers have
`announced portal products. Some are not solutions, but
`rather tools that would allow companies to develop their
`own, severely limited portals. Some products provide the
`ability to access and consolidate different types of data from
`various sources for reporting purposes, but do nothing to
`support the inclusion of existing applications. Others may
`support a diversity of data as well as the ability to interface
`with existing applications (to varying degrees), but they
`place restrictions on the types of devices people can use to
`access the system.
`A further limitation of these portal products is the great
`number of different content and services available over a
`network like the Internet which in turn, has lead to an
`enormous variety of different communication standards,
`data formats and file formats, which are sometimes propri-
`etary for the particular content and services.
`As a consequence, services or content provided by some
`provider systems may be incompatible with services or
`content provided by other provider systems and thus have a
`“stove-pipe” nature as to their presence and operation on
`networks. In addition, there exist many different communi-
`cation schemes for content or service, which communication
`schemes again may be incompatible and not universally
`accessible or supported by all client systems. Accordingly,
`the existing portal products are limited to a subset of client
`systems and permit this subset of client systems to access at
`most a limited amount of content that is available.
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`SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
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`According to one embodiment of the present invention, a
`network portal system allows the universal and integral use
`of different services by arbitrary client systems. The network
`portal system links, via a communication network, a plural-
`ity of content provider systems with a plurality of client
`systems. Each content provider system that offers content is
`associated with a content identifier, which in one embodi-
`ment is a URL scheme. The content is information that is
`transmittable over the communication network.
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`In one embodiment, the network portal system includes a
`web-top manager. The web-top manager receives a content
`request from a client system. According to one embodiment
`of the present invention, each content request includes a
`content identifier of the content requested by the requesting
`client system. Optionally,
`the content request includes a
`client system identifier and/or a content type. Alternatively,
`a process on the network portal system may determine the
`client system identifier and content types supported by the
`client device.
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`The web-top manager in the network portal system com-
`municates with a universal content broker system that also
`is in the network portal system. Upon receipt of a content
`request from the web-top manager, a universal content
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`in the universal content broker system, using
`broker
`resources within the network portal system, selects a content
`provider system, which is able to provide the requested
`content. Next,
`the universal content broker accesses the
`selected content provider system, and issues a request that
`results in the performance of the action specified in the
`request by the accessed provider system.
`If the request was to retrieve content, the content in a raw
`data format is passed to the web-top ma