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Computer network providing transparent operation on a compute server and associated method

US5249293A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateNov 27, 1992
Grant dateSep 28, 1993
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Expiry dateNov 27, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L67/133
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method is provided for executing an application on a compute server of a computer network that includes the compute server and at least one client system, the method comprising the steps of: activating a process and a server thread running on the compute server; obtaining initial client context information from a context server running on the at least one client system; producing on the compute server a bound process bounded by the context server running on the at least one client system; executing the application in the bound process on the compute server; and in the course of the step of executing the bound process, obtaining additional client context information as requested by the application from the context server.

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