Michael E Donohue

US Patent:

59874805, Nov 16, 1999

Filed:

Jul 25, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/690209

Inventors:

Michael Donohue - New York NY
Patrick Leung - New York NY

International Classification:

G06F 1500

US Classification:

707501

Abstract:

A system and method for delivering documents having dynamic content embedded over the worldwide Internet or a local internet or intranet. A data source is stored on a server computer connected to the Internet, the data source containing content in a form representing or reducible to names and corresponding values. Document templates are created by embedding dynamic tags and flow directives in markup language documents, the dynamic tags and flow directives containing one or more names of content stored in the data source. The document templates are stored on the server computer. The server computer can receive requests from client computers connected to the Internet, the requests identifying desired documents to be delivered. In response to such a request, the server computer selects one of the document templates corresponding to the desired document, populates the document template with content stored in the data source based on respective values of content corresponding to names in the dynamic tags and flow directives, and delivers the populated document to the client computer. The invention has particular application to HTML documents transferred over the World Wide Web.