Oracle International Corporation

Max Schireson

Sachin Desai

Kiran Gurudutt Bellare

Allison Waingold

Aman Namait

A method for an e-commerce storefront management user interface to enable efficient updating of the Web pages of the storefront. The method begins with the step of accessing a Web page out of a plurality of Web pages of an e-commerce Web site. Log in information is then submitted to the Web site. The log in information can include an authentication to obtain privileges for modifying the Web pages of the Web site. Once logged in, an item on the Web page is selected for editing and modification. The selected item is then edited and the edited data is submitted. Once received by the Web site, an updated version of the Web page is provided for viewing and verification of the edited item. The steps are performed using a Web browser on a client machine to access the Web site and view the Web pages. The logged in manager can be required to log out of the Web site prior to receiving the updated version of the Web page. The updated version of the Web page is viewed using a Web browser to verify the appearance of the edited item, the appearance being the same as the appearance to a standard user accessing the updated version of the Web page. A workflow notification request can be automatically generated in order to obtain an approval of the updated version of the Web page, wherein the updated version of the Web page is not provided until the approval is obtained.

E-commerce store management user interface for performing Web site updates

A method and system automatically creates and operates a web application from a spreadsheet without the need for specialized programming. The web application includes a guided data entry process created from spreadsheet worksheets. The web application interfaces with a database application, so that model data may be retrieved for analysis. The web application implements the model as a calculator data defining the relationships between the model values. A rendering data defines the appearance of the model values in the web application. A instance data includes the model values for an instance of the web application. A calculation engine calculates model values. A layout engine creates display information from the calculator, rendering, and instance data set. The rendering data includes objects having display methods for creating display information in accordance with its object type. Object types include inputs, outputs, and user interface elements.

Web application generator for spreadsheet calculators

A method for a first computer to request documents from a second computer inacludes steps of sending a first request for a first document to the second computer responsive to a first user action, receiving the first document sent by the second computer responsive to the first request; identifying all references to second documents in the received first document; independently of any user action, automatically sending a second request for at least one of the second documents referred to by the identified references; receiving the second document(s) requested by the second request and storing the received second document(s) in a storage that is local to the first computer, and responsive to a user request for one or more of the second documents, attempting first to service the user request from the local storage and sending a third request to the second computer for second document(s) only when the second document(s) is not stored in the local storage. A method of servicing a request for access to a Web site by a remote computer may include a receiving step to receive the request for access to the Web site; a first sending step to send a first page of the accessed Web site to the remote computer responsive to the request, and independently of any subsequent request for a second page of the Web site originating from the remote computer, preemptively carrying out a second sending step to send the remote computer at least one selected second page based upon a prediction of a subsequent request by the remote computer and/or a history of second pages previously accessed by the remote computer.

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Los Altos, CA, United States of America

Max Schireson