US 20140.095539A1 (19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2014/0095539 A1 Smit et al. (43) Pub. Date: Apr. 3, 2014 (54) SYSTEMAND METHOD FOR tinuation of application No. 09/933,493, filed on Aug. ASYNCHRONOUS CLIENT SERVER SESSION 20, 2001, now Pat. No. 8,112,529. COMMUNICATION Publication Classification (71) Applicant: MasterObjects, Inc., Zeist (NL) (51) Int. Cl. (72) Inventors: Mark Hans Smit, Maarssen (NL); G06F 7/30 (2006.01) Stefan M. van den Oord, Best (NL) (52) U.S. Cl. CPC ................................ G06F 17/30696 (2013.01) (73) Assignee: MasterObjects, Inc., Zeist (NL) USPC .......................................................... 707/772 (57) ABSTRACT (21) Appl. 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It was also difficult to manage multiple copies of the NOUSCLIENT SERVERSESSION COMMUNICATION, same data. which is a continuation of U.S. Pat. No. 8,112,529, issued on 0007 Toward the end of the 1980's faster microcomputers Feb. 7, 2012, entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR and networks made it practical to work with enterprise data in ASYNCHRONOUS CLIENT SERVER SESSION COM smaller chunks than files. One example of this new technol MUNICATION” by Mark H. Smit, et al, which applications ogy was the development of Structured Query Language are incorporated herein by reference. (SQL) relational databases which made it possible to divide software programs into a Client tier and a Server tier that COPYRIGHT NOTICE communicated with each other over a network. Client-server computing thus made it possible to store information cen 0002. A portion of the disclosure of this patent document trally, yet manage and work with it locally. In the client-server contains material which is subject to copyright protection. paradigm, the client systems concentrated on offering a user The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile repro friendly interface to server data, while the server systems duction by anyone of the patent document or the patent dis were able to handle many client systems at once while safely closure, as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office managing enterprise data. patent file or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright 0008. However, the increasing client-server computing rights whatsoever. introduced its share of problems. Protocols used to commu nicate between client and server became increasingly com FIELD OF THE INVENTION plex and difficult to manage. Enterprise IT departments 0003. The invention relates generally to client-server com needed increasingly greater resources to manage the propri munication systems, and particularly to a session-based bi etary implementations of client operating systems, server directional multi-tier client-server asynchronous search and database systems and middleware protocols connecting the retrieval system. various tiers of client-server systems. Data was no longer stored in one place but was required to be managed within a BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION distributed network of systems. Client-server systems also 0004. A primary task of computer systems is to manage lacked a major advantage of mainframes: in a client-server large quantities of information, generally referred to as data. system any changes to the data on the server werent imme The first computers typically stored data using off-line meth diately updated on the client.