Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Network computer configuring
Reexamination Certificate
1998-07-17
2001-06-05
Najjar, Saleh (Department: 2154)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Network computer configuring
C709S221000, C709S222000, C709S223000, C709S225000, C709S226000, C709S229000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06243745
ABSTRACT:
In addition, the following applications are also related to the present invention:
The present patent application is related to Ser. No. 09/118,559, entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATION OF A NETWORK COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT” pending.
The present patent application is related to Ser. No. 09/118,557, entitled “DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR AUTOMATING ACCOUNT CREATION IN A NETWORK” pending.
The present patent application is related to Ser. No. 09/118,293, entitled “COMPUTER SOFTWARE SYSTEM FOR ELIMINATING OPERATING SYSTEM MULTIPLE LOGINS UNDER REMOTE PROGRAM LOAD WITH NETWORK PROVIDER DYNAMIC LINK LIBRARY” pending.
The present patent application is related to Ser. No. 09/118,208, entitled “CONFIGURING COMPUTER NETWORK OPERATIONS BASED UPON A SEQUENCE OF INTERACTIVE USER ENTRIES INTO A NETWORK SERVER COMPUTER WITH A ONE TIME ENTRY OF DATA COMMONLY REQUIRED BY MULTIPLE CLIENTS”.
The present patent application is related to Ser. No. 09/118,291, entitled “NETWORK WITH STORAGE OF ALL CLIENT COMPUTER PROGRAMS IN SERVER COMPUTER HAVING CUSTOMIZED CLIENT GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES WITH MAXIMUM SHARING OF STORED PORTIONS OF INTERFACES COMMON TO A PLURALITY OF CLIENTS” pending.
The present patent application is related to Ser. No. 09/118,292, entitled “SERVER AND COMPUTER NETWORK THAT PERMIT A CLIENT TO BE EASILY INTRODUCED INTO THE COMPUTER NETWORK” now U.S. Pat. No. 6,108,779.
The present patent application is related to Ser. No. 09/118,209, entitled “METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOWING A USER TO ROVE AMONG VARIOUS CLIENTS IN A NETWORK WHILE MAINTAINING INDIVIDUAL HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PREFERENCES” pending.
The present patent application is related to Ser. No. 09/118,207, entitled “METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING A PRELOAD IMAGE” pending.
The present patent application is related to Ser. No. 09/118,558, entitled“METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOWING A USER TO ROVE AMONG VARIOUS CLIENTS IN A NETWORK WHILE MAINTAINING INDIVIDUAL HARDWARE PREFERENCES” pending.
The present patent application is related to Ser. No. 09/118,556, entitled “METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AND INITIALIZING THE ADDITION OF A NEW CLIENT MACHINE IN A NETWORK” now U.S. Pat. No. 6,105,100.
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a system, method and program for the configuration of a computer network and particularly a local network of server computers and client computers in a manner which is expeditious and involves very little down time of the network or its components.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Computers and their application programs are used in all aspects of business, industry and academic endeavors. In recent years, there has been a technological revolution driven by the convergence of the data processing industry with the consumer electronics industry. This advance has been even further accelerated by the extensive consumer and business involvement in the Internet. As a result of these changes it seems as if virtually all aspects of human productivity in the industrialized world requires human/computer interaction. The computer industry has been a force for bringing about great increases in business and industrial productivity. Almost every week seems to bring computer industry advances which promise even further increases in productivity. These advances offer to drive down business and industry costs and increase efficiency, in addition to increasing productivity. In addition, the cost of “computer power” continues to drop as result of rapid advances in computer related technologies.
Despite all of these advantages, there still remains great resistance in all industries and business fields to new computer systems and significant system upgrades which offer much in productivity increases. This resistance results from past experience which equates to installing new computer systems or significant upgrades in existing systems with large amounts of down time, during which the business, manufacturing facility or individual worker functions are inoperative or operate at diminished levels. When a business or production facility is trying to decide whether to install a new or significantly upgraded computer system, the concern about down time, the possible loss of business as well as stress on the workers involved, very often outweighs the cost of the installation in influencing the decision. The concern about business and production delays resulting from installation has become so great that fewer and fewer small businesses are trying to make system and program changes on their own. The professional computer service industry which carries out and supports installations and upgrades for the business and industrial sector has been rapidly expanding over the past decade. However, even with such computer professional support the threat of such down time coupled with the costs of such professional services caused by installation delays remains of great concern.
In order to make computer installation and all aspects of human/computer interfacing less confusing, there is a need to make computer directed activities easier to understand for a substantial portion of the world's population, which, up to a few years ago, was computer illiterate, or, at best, computer indifferent. For the vast computer supported market places to continue and be commercially productive it will be necessary for a large segment of computer indifferent consumers to be involved in computer interfaces. Thus, the challenge of our technology is to create interfaces to computers which are as close to the real world as possible. Nowhere is this challenge more vital than in the installations of computer and computer networking systems for small businesses. In this marketplace, we are dealing with a group whose available time is being stressed to its limits by the pressures of current economic systems. Even though the computer systems procurable by these business people may offer their eventual salvation to their other business stresses, the prospect of a new computer installation is often quite ominous to them. Salespeople offering new systems may be met with phrases like, “We don't have the time to hack around with the computer; we have got to make a buck.”.
This view has a reasonable validity. The giant computer industries of today arose over the past 60 years out of a small and esoteric group of specialists who developed their own jargon when referring to computer functions. Unfortunately, when the consumer industry of today evolved with hundreds of millions of potential computer systems consumers, these terms and their like successors, e.g. “meg, gig, RAM, frag, backup” and an infinite number of pseudonyms, still dominate the consumer end of the business. All of this is quite threatening to many in small businesses and makes them resist their inevitable computerization.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention provides a solution to the above problems by providing to small businesses and like enterprises a computer controlled display interface for the installation of a local network wherein the prompts for data entries substantially request information which is apparently unrelated to computer operations. The information is more like the demographic information which an employer or business might have to fill out or enter for business tax purposes or to get zoning waivers or apply for insurance.
The present invention provides a system for the configuration of operations in a network comprising at least a server computer and a respective plurality of client computers connected to each server computer comprising means for interactively prompting a user to make a sequence of data entries, each of said entries being apparently unrelated to computer operations and covering a demographic aspect of the business environment using the network, and means for allocating network computing components and operations among the computers in the network in response to and based upon said user entries. The system has algorithms for correlating the entries and for allocating said network computing components and operat
Casey Walter William
Dean Jeffrey Randell
Rodriguez Ingrid Milagros
International Business Machines - Corporation
Kraft J. B.
Leeuwen Leslie A. Van
Najjar Saleh
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