International Business Machines Corporation

Jody Lynn Mace

Stephen S Harding

Dennis D Leak

Edward Raymond Swiatek

Susan Louise Blackshear

Method, apparatus and system is disclosed for providing TCP/IP addresses from a dynamic user identification server to workstations running an application program so that messages can be sent from one operator to another operator regardless of which workstation the other operator may be using, without the need to send the message itself through a server station. The dynamic user identification server also keeps track of the number of workstations in use at any one time and the number of copies of a licensed program being used for royalty control.

Dynamic mapping of user id into TCP/IP address without user interaction

An apparatus and method for converting a numeric representation of a number stored in a memory into a string representation of the number. Numeric representation includes an integer portion and may include a fractional portion. The numeric representation is rounded to a specified amount of precision. Each digit of the integer portion is converted to a string character in accordance with the invention. Each digit of the fractional portion, if any, is also converted to a string character. Appropriate 'negative' signs and decimal points are created as required. The invention is also embodied as an article of manufacture.

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Charlotte, NC, United States of America

Jody Lynn Mace