Patent ID: 9055002
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-assisted method for modernizing a menu-driven legacy application having a plurality of tasks that are configured to be executed on a host computing system, comprising: determining from the plurality of tasks of the menu-driven legacy application a plurality of executable legacy tasks that are configured to be executed on the host computing system; reorganizing the determined plurality of executable legacy tasks by role by assigning one or more of the determined executable legacy tasks to each of a plurality of roles, each role comprising a definition of one or more users authorized to use the role to access the legacy application tasks and a set of identifiers of the one or more determined executable tasks assigned to the role; storing the roles in a configuration data repository, such that when the configuration data repository is downloaded to a client computing system, the determined executable legacy tasks assigned to a role are made accessible to a user authorized to access the host computing system by that role; under control of a client computing system, using at least one of the roles stored in the downloaded configuration data repository to directly access one or more of the determined executable legacy tasks assigned to the at least one of the roles, wherein using at least one of the roles to directly access one or more of the determined executable legacy tasks further comprises directly invoking the one or more of the determined executable legacy tasks without invoking menus of the legacy application; and further modernizing at least one of the executable legacy tasks by supplementing the at least one of the executable legacy tasks with access to non-legacy functionality.