William C Tims

US Patent:

56734034, Sep 30, 1997

Filed:

Nov 13, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/975753

Inventors:

Michael Wilfrid Brown - Austin TX
Lester Brooks Hickerson - Austin TX
Colin Victor Powell - Highland Beach FL
William Chapel Tims - Austin TX
Robert Leonard Tycast - Boca Raton FL
Richard Lee Verburg - Austin TX

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 314

US Classification:

395335

Abstract:

Two or more interconnected computer systems, each having a different operating system. For example, a client system may be running the OS/2 operating system and a second, server computer the AIX system. The server system that allocates display screen space for application windows running on the server system and supports window management. Further, the window management places GUI borders around the application window which allow a user to interact with the client application. The functions in these GUI borders include a menu bar, scroll bar, sizing features, pull down windows, and the like. The client application is mapped into a form which enables the application commands to be recognized by a library of functional calls associated with the server system. The server system, displays the client application in the designated window along with the server GUI. In this manner a user can interact with a client application using the server graphical user interface.