System for reducing communications overhead in distributed database transactions by serializing in order related requests into single transmission message and receiving transmission response

Patent 5179660 Issued on January 12, 1993. Estimated Expiration Date:

January 12, 2010. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation

Application

No. 352082 filed on 05/15/1989

US Classes:

709/219, Accessing a remote server707/10Distributed or remote access

Examiners

Primary: Lee, Thomas C.
Assistant: Kim, Kenneth S.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

O'Malley; Paul W.

International Classes

G06F 013/14
G06F 015/40

Abstract

A system suitable for use on a computer network provides a user interface on a local node and an application to be run on a remote node. An application for accepting input from the user and translating it to appropriate commands for the remote application is divided, and located partially on the local node and partially on the remote node. That portion located on the local node gathers any information required from the user and transmits it to the portion located on the remote node in an efficient manner. The remote location portion uses the transmitted information to interface with the remote application and obtain results. The results are collected and transmitted to the local portion, from which they are returned to the user.