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The present invention provides communication servers at each device in a fueling environment and connecting the servers to a common network. The network may be a local network or a largely remote network, such as the Internet. Preferably, in either embodiment, primary communications between these de

The present invention provides communication servers at each device in a fueling environment and connecting the servers to a common network. The network may be a local network or a largely remote network, such as the Internet. Preferably, in either embodiment, primary communications between these devices and any devices accessible via the Internet use the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) and hypertext markup language (HTML). In particular, each device server is adapted to facilitate real-time access between the device server and the remote device upon access of a particular page, script or function. In particular, the present invention relates to embedding executable content onto an HTML page so that when the page is loaded into an HTML browser after being accessed, the executable content starts running automatically.

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1. A fuel dispenser facilitating remote management functions comprising:a. a housing; b. a dispenser server at said housing including a control system, a network connection and a dispenser server task running on said control system; c. a hypertext markup language compliant page on said server access

1. A fuel dispenser facilitating remote management functions comprising:a. a housing; b. a dispenser server at said housing including a control system, a network connection and a dispenser server task running on said control system; c. a hypertext markup language compliant page on said server accessible through said network connection; d. an embedded function associated with said page and operable to facilitate real-time functions upon access between a remote browser apart from said server and said server over a network; and e. a fuel delivery system associated with said housing having a fuel supply line, a metering device, a delivery hose and a nozzle to permit the dispensing of fuel wherein said embedded function is: configured to be sent to the browser with said page when the remote browser accesses said page, and operable to run at the browser to provide a connection between said server and the remote browser through said network connection.