Patent ID: 6687762
Filing Date: 2004-02-03
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
A method for operating a computer system to provide operating system services to a user application running on said computer system including a network connecting said computer system to at least one other computer system, said user application generating operating system commands requiring access to said network, commands requiring operating system actions that do not access said network, said method comprising providing an operating system including:a network server for accessing said network; a non-network server for executing operating system commands not requiring network services; an emulation library, separate from said network server and said non-network server, for receiving said operating system commands generated by said user application, for decoding each of said received operating system commands to determine if that command requires network services, and forwarding a command based on that received command to said non-network server or said network server depending on whether or not that command requires network services.