Patent ID: 9304754
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method in a client computing system for modernizing an existing menu-based legacy application, comprising: receiving from a host computing system a data stream representing output from a task of the existing menu-based legacy application executing on a host computing system; filtering the received data stream output to identify entities to be output in a display on the client computing system of the received data stream, wherein the identified entities identified by the filtering the received data stream include multiple user interface controls to be displayed on a role desktop, wherein the role desktop displays an indicator of a current role that is associated with one or more tasks of the existing menu-based legacy application, wherein the role is associated with at least one user that is authorized to conduct the associated one or more tasks, and wherein the identified entities include indicators of running tasks of the existing menu-based legacy application; associating each identified entity identified by the filtering of the received data stream with an associated icon that most nearly matches the identified entity by: outputting the received data stream in the display on the client computing system, such that each identified entity identified by the filtering of the received data stream is displayed along with its associated icon on the role desktop.