Patent ID: 6091411
Filing Date: 2000-07-18
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A server computer system remotely accessible to multiple client computers each having an operating system with a local store of multimedia operating system element resources, a dynamic theme selector, a recurrent resource requesting service, and a shell, wherein the dynamic theme selector has a control for setting an active theme of the operating system which active theme has an associated source of multimedia operating system element resources, the recurrent resource requesting service automatically issuing requests on a recurrent basis to the source associated with the active theme and storing multimedia operating system element resources received from the source into the local store, the shell using the multimedia operating system element resources from the local store to create a dynamically updating user-perceptible environment through which a user of the respective client computer interacts with the operating system, the server computer system comprising:a data storage containing a collection of multimedia operating system element resources; anda download request servicing module for responding to the requests from the recurrent resource requesting services of the client computers to transmit the collection of multimedia operating system element resources from the data storage to such requesting client computers;whereby the collection of multi-media resources loaded into the data storage at the server computer system is used to remotely define the user-perceptible environment through which the user interacts with the operating system on those of the client computers set to an active theme that designates the server computer system as its associated source.