Hotkey access to legacy application tasks
AssigneeAdvanced BusinessLink Corporation
InventorChristopher F. Lategan
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and techniques for assigning hotkeys to legacy tasks as part of modernizing such tasks are provided. A user can assign a hotkey to an individual task so that the user can have instant access to a legacy or a non-legacy task without needing to navigate to “sub-” tasks of the legacy task. Hotkey access may be used with role-based modernization of legacy tasks to provide navigation to and from legacy tasks without starting and stopping sessions. Example embodiments provide a Role-Based Modernization System (“RBMS”), which uses these enhanced modernization techniques to provide role-based modernization of menu-based legacy applications.
Claims23
A method in a computer system for modernizing an existing menu-based legacy application, comprising:
- by a client application executing within a Web browser executed by the computer system,
- receiving an indication of a user defined key sequence;
- associating the user defined key sequence with an executing task of the existing menu-based legacy application executing on a host system, wherein the executing task corresponds to a code module of the existing menu-based legacy application;
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- facilitating access to the executing task by displaying screen output of the executing task whenever the associated user defined key sequence is entered;
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- wherein the computer system is a client computing system that interacts with a remote computer system that hosts the existing menu-based legacy application, wherein the existing menu-based legacy application presents screen output via a series of hierarchical menus, each menu represented as a character stream for presentation line-by-line on a distinct terminal screen without pixel addressing, and wherein facilitating access to the executing task includes displaying the screen output of the executing task in one user action of entering the defined key sequence instead of by navigating a series of hierarchical menus displayed line-by-line on the distinct terminal screen.
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A computer-readable medium whose contents enable a computing system to modernize an existing menu-based legacy application, by performing a method comprising:
- by a client application executing within a Web browser executed by the computer system,
- receiving an indication of a user defined key sequence;
- associating the user defined key sequence with an executing task of the existing menu-based legacy application executing on a host system, wherein executing task corresponds to a code module of the existing menu-based legacy application;
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- facilitating access to the executing task by displaying screen output of the executing task whenever the associated user defined key sequence is entered;
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- wherein the computer system is a client computing system that interacts with a remote computer system that hosts the existing menu-based legacy application, wherein the existing menu based legacy application presents screen output via a series of hierarchical menus, each menu represented as a character stream for presentation line-by-line on a distinct terminal screen without pixel addressing, and wherein facilitating access to the executing task includes displaying the screen output of the executing task in one user action of entering the defined key sequence instead of by navigating a series of hierarchical menus displayed line-by-line on the distinct terminal screen.
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A computer system configured to modernize an existing menu-based legacy application, comprising:
- a memory;
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- a module that is stored on the memory and that is configured, when executed by a client application executing within a Web browser executed by the computer system, to:
- receive an indication of a user defined key sequence;
- associate the user defined key sequence with an executing task of the existing menu-based legacy application executing on a host system;
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- facilitate access to the executing task by displaying screen output of the executing task whenever the associated user defined key sequence is entered;
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- wherein the computer system is a client computing system that interacts with a remote computer system that hosts the existing menu-based legacy application, wherein the existing menu-based legacy application presents screen output via a series of hierarchical menus, each menu represented as a character stream for presentation line-by-line on a distinct terminal screen without pixel addressing, and wherein facilitating access to the executing task includes displaying the screen output of the executing task in one user action of entering the defined key sequence instead of by navigating a series of hierarchical menus displayed line-by-line on the distinct terminal screen.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.