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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsWalter William Casey, Jeffrey Randell Dean, Jeffrey Langdon Howard, Ingrid Milagros Rodriguez
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A network of a server and a plurality of client computers for small businesses which is easy to install, configure and operate and still provides all of the users in the business with the same transparent access to all of their allocated software resources through a same graphical user interface irrespective of which one of the client computers in the network they may sign onto. The operating systems and the application programs to be used on the client computers are loaded on the server. The users have been prompted for the one time input of data required by the server computer to allocate an operating system and application programs for use by each of a plurality of users on each of the plurality of client computers. Responsive to the log on of one of the plurality of users on any one of the client computers, there is distributed to the logged on client computer the operating system and application programs allocated for use by the user through substantially the same graphical user interface irrespective of which client computer the user signs onto. Since the client computers have little or no storage facilities, there are means in the server computer for storing and tracking the above prompted for data entries.
A computer network comprising at least one server computer and a plurality of client computers enabling a user to access substantially the same interface on any one of said client computers comprising:
In a computer network of at least one server computer and a plurality of client computers, a method enabling a user to access substantially the same interface on any one of said client computers comprising:
A computer program having program code included on a computer readable medium for enabling a user to access substantially the same interface on any client computer in a computer network comprising at least one server computer and a plurality of client computers comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.