DISPLAYING WINDOWING APPLICATION PROGRAMS ON A TERMINAL

A video display terminal operating with a graphical user interface which provides windowing functionality to permit use of popular application programs resident on a server, without requiring more than application data to be transmitted from the server, and keyboard and mouse information to be trans...

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Main Authors STONE, DAVID, LAM, SUI, M, BUSWELL, RANDY, GAY, BILL
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 29.05.2002
Edition7
Subjects
ADVERTISING
ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICESUSING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
CRYPTOGRAPHY
DISPLAY
EDUCATION
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
SEALS
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Summary:A video display terminal operating with a graphical user interface which provides windowing functionality to permit use of popular application 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. The terminal includes processing means adapted to receive windowing information supplied by programs executing on a remotely located application server. The terminal also includes a display for the windowing information supplied by programs executing on the remotely located application server. The present invention further provides for simultaneously maintaining more than one connection between the terminal and server and establishing more than one virtual machine on the terminal with each virtual machine running an open session.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20000965042