Patent ID: 6438619
Filing Date: 2002-08-20
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
A remote communication system on a terminal for communicating with a physically remote host system of the type which runs a host program and which provides services to one or more users of the remote communication system on the terminal and wherein the operating systems of the host and remote terminal are not necessarily the same, the remote communication system comprising:a central processing unit; a graphical interface operating system; means for receiving commands and data sent by the physically remote host system, the received commands comprising operating system independent instructions for manipulating graphic interface operating system objects; a terminal program running on said remote communication system, said terminal program including means for interpreting the received operating system-independent instructions and executing graphic interface operating system instructions corresponding to the interpreted operating system-independent instructions; and a display operatively connected to said central processing unit for displaying the results of the commands executed by the graphical interface operating system.