System and Method for Sharing Web Contents for Building Rich Internet Applications

摘要

An Internet-based system and application includes both a server and a plurality of client hardware platforms for executing the server as well as the client software. The current invention provides both bottom-up and top-down approaches in modeling information while all other existing systems provide only bottom-up approach. The system and application provide a set of pre-build widgets, also called “molecules”, that spare users from the details and complexity of the underlying web technologies while allowing them to build end applications from intermediary components called droplets by simply assembling and connecting existing molecules. Droplets are stored in a centralized repository wherein all other droplets that have been previously created by this user or others are also stored. Droplets can be selectively shared with others by assigning read/write privileges on creation or on the fly. Multiple droplets can be saved as a single HTML file called a formation. Multiple formations arranged in a pre-determined sequential order typical of a presentation can be packaged as an application. Molecules, droplets, formations, and applications are all sharable units within the system.