David E Cerrone

US Patent:

6782418, Aug 24, 2004

Filed:

Jan 24, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/490142

Inventors:

David Francis Cerrone - Troy NY
David Anthony Czarnecki - Clifton Park NY
Barbara Jean Vivier - Niskayuna NY

Assignee:

General Electric Company - Niskayuna NY

International Classification:

G06F 1516

US Classification:

709217

Abstract:

Disclosed is a distributed computer application that utilizes the Internet and Web browsers as the interface to the distributed computer application server. Users who are providers of data utilize Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) enabled HyperText Transport Protocol (HTTP) to encrypt communications between their Web browser and the distributed computer application Web server (HTTPS). A Java servlet on the external HTTPS distributed computer application Web server handles the file upload from the Web browser and re-POSTs the data to a processing Java servlet on an internal HTTPS distributed computer application application server. The processing Java servlet on the internal HTTPS distributed computer application server is used to handle the file upload from the collection Java servlet on the external HTTPS distributed computer application Web server and saves the file locally in a database on the internal HTTPS distributed computer application application server.