Patent ID: 6195694
Filing Date: 2001-02-27
Classification: G07F,H04L

Abstract:
A server comprising:one or more connections to a network, one or more requests received through the connections;one or more configuration sets having one or more files and at least one embedded control function sent by the server to one or more remote kiosks connected to the network, one or more of the configuration sets and one or more of the embedded control functions being associated with an application and capable of being executed by a browser on the remote kiosks, the embedded control function capable of invoking one or more browser application programming interface programs, the browser application programming interface programs capable of communicating between the embedded control function and a driver subset of local application programming interface programs associated with a respective subset of devices on the kiosk but external to the browser, and the embedded control function capable of selecting and causing the driver subset to control the subset of devices to configure the respective kiosk to perform the application.