Citrix Systems, Inc.

Anthony Ungerman

Bradley Jay Pedersen

Anatoliy Panasyuk

Marc A Bloomfield

Martin Duursma

Tom Davis, Iii

Robert Ciraldo

Thomas D Freeman

Daniel Nicholes Woodbury

Tom C Davis

An apparatus and method for determining a program neighborhood of a client node in a client-server network is described. The program neighborhood of the client node includes application programs hosted by application servers on the network. The present invention enables a user of a client node to learn of these application programs. The user is not required to know where to find such applications or to manually establish links to such applications. To make the client node aware of its program neighborhood, a host server collects application-related information corresponding to application programs hosted by the servers in the network. The application-related information can include the application name, the server location of the application, minimum capabilities required of client nodes for executing the application, and those users who are authorized to use that application. User credentials are received from the client system. The user credentials are used to filter the application-related information. Information representing those application programs that are available to the client node is transmitted from the host server to the client system for display. In a Windows-based client node, the information can be represented by a graphical icon for each available application program.

Apparatus and method for determining a program neighborhood for a client node in a client-server network

Apparatus and method for determining a program neighborhood for a client node in a client-server network using markup language techniques

Methods and apparatus for administering a remote server having a subsystem in communication with an event bus. In one aspect of the present invention, an administration tool for administering a server has a subsystem in communication with an event bus. The administration tool includes a graphical user interface communications channel and a graphical user interface module corresponding to the server subsystem, wherein the graphical user interface module is in communication with the channel. The administration tool also includes a transport module in communication with the channel and the graphical user interface module. The graphical user interface module transmits an administration command to the corresponding server subsystem by sending the command to the transport module via the communications channel.

Method and apparatus for administering a server having a subsystem in communication with an event channel

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Anthony Ungerman