Patent ID: 6256665
Filing Date: 2001-07-03
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
A method, implemented in a computer system, for using a host computer to emulate a GUI application on one or more terminal computers in a manner which is substantially transparent to the a user of said terminal computer, said method comprising the steps of:(a) executing an application program selecting a first set of data on said the host computer;formatting the first set of data in one or more information packets, each of the information packets containing at least a portion of the first set of data, each of the information packets containing explicit command code which further contains graphical language macros for manipulating the GUI application on a terminal computer, the command code being independent from the command code in any other of the information packets, each of the information packets further having a length which is variable independently of the length of any other of said information packets;(b) establishing communication between a the host computer and a the terminal computer, said the terminal computer having a GUI;(c) transmitting from said the host computer to said the terminal computer one or more graphical language macros, said graphical language macros directly manipulating said terminal GUI information packets from the host computer to the terminal computer;receiving the information packets in the terminal computer; andthe terminal computer ascertaining from the command code in each information packet action specified by the command code and performing the action on the portion of the first set of data in the information packet.