Patent
1993-12-29
1997-07-22
Bayerl, Raymond J.
395326, G06F 1500
Patent
active
056511094
ABSTRACT:
A terminal device, such as a computer, workstation or smart phone, incorporates a memory structure which simplifies and facilitates communications between a host computer and the terminal device. The host computer and the terminal device exchange application interface information via a communications protocol in which the host computer associates different types of objects with respective identifiers and then transmits an object type and its associated identifier to the terminal device. The terminal device, in turn, displays the object in a form determined solely by the terminal device but in accordance with respective predefined policies determined by the memory structure. If a user manipulates a displayed object type, then data representative of such manipulation is generated and transmitted with the associated object identifier to the host processor. Accordingly, terminal devices with different operating characteristics may successfully communicate with the host computer using the same protocol even though these devices may, have different screen sizes or capabilities.
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Ackerman Chaim M.
Glasser Alan L.
Karpicke John Arthur
Klein Reuben
Bayerl Raymond J.
Chauhan U.
Lucent Technologies - Inc.
Williamson Samuel R.
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