Patent ID: 7496641

Claim:
A computer system in which a plurality of server units and a plurality of terminal units are connected via a network and application software is consolidated on the server units, each of the server units comprising: specific file storage means for storing a specific file in which information on connection with each of said plurality of server units, information on a desktop image corresponding to each of said plurality of server units, information on specification of an application functioning on the server unit, and information on an image of an initial screen have been written; specific file transmitting means for transmitting the specific file stored by the specific file storage means to a connecting terminal unit as a result of connection with the terminal unit; and application running means for running the functioning application when receiving from the terminal unit a run command for an application complying with information on the specification of the application functioning on the present server unit, and each of the terminal units comprising: specific file reception storage means for storing the specific file received in response to the connection with the server unit; desktop list display control means for displaying, in list form, desktop images corresponding to said plurality of server units in a one-to-one correspondence based on a description of the specific file stored by the specific file reception storage means; connection command transmitting means for, when the desktop images corresponding to said plurality of server units in the one-to-one correspondence displayed in list form by the desktop list display control means are specified according to user operation, transmitting a connection command to the server unit according to connection information on the server unit written in the specific file stored by the specific file reception storage means in compliance with the specified desktop image; application list display control means for displaying, in list form, initial screen images of the application functioning on the server unit based on the description of the specific file stored by the specific file reception storage means; and run command transmitting means for, when the initial screen images of the application displayed in list form by the application list display control means are specified according to a user operation, transmitting the run command for the application to the server unit according to information on the specification of the application written in the specific file stored by the specific file reception storage means in conformity to an initial screen image of a specified application.