Method and apparatus for display of windowing application programs on a terminal

A video display terminal capable of operating with a graphical user interface such as Windows TM provides windowing functionality to permit use of popular applications programs resident on a server, without requiring more than application data to be transmitted from the server, and keyboard and mous...

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Main Authors BILL GAY, YIH-SHYAN WEY, SUI M LAM, RANDY BUSWELL, CAROL A FOX, CURTIS SCHWEBKE
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 07.06.2001
Edition6
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:A video display terminal capable of operating with a graphical user interface such as Windows TM provides windowing functionality to permit use of popular applications programs resident on a server, without requiring more than application data to be transmitted from the server, and keyboard and mouse information to be transmitted from the terminal to the server. In addition, a method for updating terminal operating characteristics over a communications link from a host is disclosed. Finally, method and apparatus are disclosed for implementing multiple personalities within a terminal and switching among such personalities.
Bibliography:Application Number: AU19960076426