John B Thorpe

US Patent:

8438471, May 7, 2013

Filed:

Jul 13, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/460064

Inventors:

John R Thorpe - West Hartford CT, US
Alistair D'Lougar Black - Los Gatos CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/00
G06F 9/46

US Classification:

715234, 715230, 715236, 715239, 715760, 718100

Abstract:

A system for speeding up rendering of and interacting with one or more web pages to accomplish some task using the internet. In a system comprising one or more client computers which can be cell phones, laptops or desktop computers coupled in any way to the internet and a template server and other web servers coupled to the internet, a microbrowser under control of a task workflow template is executed either by a client computer or the template server. The task workflow templates are custom defined workflows which define one or more web pages which need to be accessed and the data from each web page that needs to be extracted. The data defined in the task workflow template (and only that data) is extracted by the microbrowser and displayed on the client computer. Faster rendering results. Interaction by filling in of forms and extraction of data from the web pages that result when the form data is sent to the web server allows accomplishing of tasks using the internet much faster, especially using cell phones.