System and method for keyboard based logout
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsVinod Bijlani, Purnima Ram Borate, Abhijit Anant Telang
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Abstract
Disclosed is method for terminating a user application by identifying an active instance of a user applications, wherein the user application includes a parent instance and one or more child instances and terminating all instances of the user application on receiving a request/event generated by a user application or system.
Claims20
A method for terminating a user application, the method comprising
- identifying an active instance of a user applications, wherein the user application includes a parent instance and one or more child instances;
- and
- terminating all instances of the user application.
A data processing system comprising a processor and a memory configured for terminating a user application, wherein the operating system on the data processing system is configured to receive a request for terminating all instances of a user application, the operating system configured to
- identify an active instance of a user applications, wherein the user application includes a parent instance and one or more child instances;
- and
- terminate all instances of the user application.
The data processing system of claim 14, wherein the trigger initiates the operating system on the data processing system to close the active instance and all associated instances of the user application.
A storage medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions to carry out a method of terminating a user application, the machine readable instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus capable of performing
- identifying an active instance of a user applications, wherein the user application includes a parent instance and one or more child instances;
- and
- terminating all instances of the user application.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.