Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1991-04-02
1994-01-04
Kriess, Kevin A.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
364DIG1, 364280, 364286, 3642863, 364284, 364229, 3642323, G06F 944
Patent
active
052768830
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This application is the national phase of international application PCT/GB89/00883, having an international filing data of Aug. 3, 1989.
This invention relates to the field of workstations, data processing networks containing workstations and to methods of operating workstations and data processing networks. More particularly, this invention relates to workstations and data processing networks using which a user may carry out data processing using local or remote applications.
There is a trend in computing to link data processors together to form data processing networks. The processors within such networks may share resources such as data storage devices or communications equipment and may also share the data processing load. Typically, each user has his own intelligent workstation which is connected to one or more mainframe computer systems.
Certain data processing applications, such as those that require a large amount of user interaction, will be best suited to being carried out locally by the local processor of the user's workstation. Other data processing applications, such as those that require a large amount of numeric processing or have shared data, will be best suited to being carried out by the remote processor of a mainframe computer system. Still further applications may be best carried out by being partially processed by the local processor and partially by the remote processor.
With the ever increasing use of computer systems by nonexperts it is desirable that the systems be as simple as possible to use.
Viewed from one aspect the present invention provides a workstation with a local processor for running local applications and a communication system for linking said workstation to at least one remote processor for running remote applications characterised in that said workstation provides an application selection mode for a user in which representations of both local and remote applications are simultaneously displayed at said workstation and when a remote application is selected by said user a surrogate application running on said local processor establishes communication with said remote processor via said communication system, whereby selection of a remote application may be made in the same manner as selection of a local application.
The present invention thus both recognises and overcomes the problem of the additional complexity for the user that has previously been associated with workstations capable of running both local and remote applications. Prior art workstations have required that the user should start local and remote applications in different ways. The invention provides a system which has the advantage of being easier to use than prior art systems by providing a single mode and display from which all the different sorts of application may be started. Accordingly, the user need not be aware whether the application selected is local or remote and may run a plurality of such local and remote applications at any one time.
The present invention provides this function using a surrogate application which is run by the local processor when a remote application is selected. The fact that the surrogate application is run on the workstation means that the surrogate application can start running on the workstation in the same manner as a normal local application. Once the surrogate application has been activated it will undertake the necessary steps (e.g. by keystroke emulation) to activate the required remote application.
There are prior art systems in which the user may select between one of a number of different local applications by highlighting a local application name from a list of local application names. Such systems provide a way of starting local applications that is particularly easy for the user to understand and remember.
There are other prior art systems in which the user can gain access to a remote processor by entering an abbreviated title for that remote processor. These systems operate by automatically emulating the keystrokes that the user needs to provide to gain a
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Bailey Wayne P.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Kriess Kevin A.
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