Bind GridView from Background Thread

Question

I've built a reporting function which will call several Stored Procedures before binding the final query to a GridView which then has several processes in the GridView_DataBound event before displaying the results on the page.

The overall process can take up to 1 minute to complete.

Rather than the user having to wait this long before a response, is there a way I can run this script in a background thread and then bind somehow using AJAX?