Accessing network resources using network resource replicator and captured login script for use when the computer is disconnected from the network

Patent 5893116 Issued on April 6, 1999. Estimated Expiration Date:

September 30, 2016. 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

Novell, Inc.

Application

No. 724078 filed on 09/30/1996

US Classes:

707/201, Coherency (e.g., same view to multiple users)709/217, REMOTE DATA ACCESSING709/226, Network resource allocating709/229Network resources access controlling

Examiners

Primary: Dinh, Dung C.
Assistant: Ibrahim, Hassan

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Cesari and McKenna LLP

Foreign Patent References

0 663 640 A1 EP. 01/13/1995
0 713 183 A2 EP. 11/13/1995

International Class

G06F 015/163

Abstract

A Replication and Synchronization Engine (RSE) provides a user of a mobile computer with a consistent namespace of resources available to a network despite the connection status of the computer. The specifications (names) of the resources as viewed by the user when the computer is connected to the network are identical to the names as viewed by the user when the computer is disconnected from the network. RSE provides such a consistent namespace by maintaining complete, local replicas of a user-selected subset of these resources at the mobile computer, along with local "name-only" representations of the remaining resources. The resources maintained by RSE may include any network resource, such as a server, volume, directory, file, printer queue and other object, that the mobile computer can access.

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