Patent ID: 6539426
Filing Date: 2003-03-25
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A distributed processing system comprising:at least two different client applications, a first of which comprises a user client application and a second of which comprises a management client application, and at least two different server applications capable of exposing application interfaces to the client applications, wherein the at least two different server applications are capable of exposing different respective user application interfaces to at least one user client application, the at least two different server applications are capable of exposing a common management interface, for control and input and output of data, to the management client application, and the at least one user client application can each be used by a user to interact with at least one of said at least two different server applications via a user application interface and the management client application can be used by a user to interact with any one of said at least two different server applications via the common management interface.