International Business Machines Corporation

Showcase Corporation

David Nicholas Youngers

David G Wenz

Barbara Ann Regnier

Richard D Dettinger

Patrick James Christenson

John David Thorson

Craig W Martens

Daniel Arlan Spors

Robert Sladowski

A client/server computer system having personalizable views of database data. The personalizable views programmed in client profiles which are customized for each client in the client/server computer system. The client/server computer system featuring a translator for converting client application database input and output requests into native database commands. The translator also supporting processing functions on data both retrieved from the database and stored to the database according to each individual client profile. The client/server computer system also supporting a hierarchy of preprogrammable group profiles which may be assigned to a group of clients. The client/server system also providing a security function for database data without modifying either the client applications executing on each client terminal or the native database.

Client/server computer system having personalizable and securable views

A resource manager in a client/server computer network controls the availability of system resources. A system administrator generates a set of profiles which specify which system resources each user may employ for each of multiple application programs. Individual application programs may internally configure their possible choices of such system resources according to the appropriate profile on a dynamic basis.

Client/server computer systems having control of client-based

A word processor prepares a document having internal labels in the text. An application program contains a routine executable at various points for accessing the document and displaying its text at the label locations determined by the current position in the application.

System for providing context-sensitive on-line documentation in a data

A central processor holds a word-processing program and an entire document to be processed. A personal computer or intelligent terminal has an interactive display and holds code for some functions of the word processor, and stores individual pages of the document. As an operator performs editing tasks at the display, the personal computer performs locally those functions involving only the document page it holds. When additional document text is required to complete a function, the central processor performs the function on the full document. The central computer also performs all of certain other functions, regardless of where the data is stored.

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