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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 1997
Filed:
Aug. 26, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Barry Keith Aldred, Winchester, GB;
Howard Shelton Lambert, Southampton, GB;
Harry David Mitchell, Richmond upon Thames, GB;
Gordon W Bonsall, Winchester, GB;
Assignee:
IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395500 ; 379 9305 ; 375222 ;
Abstract
A programmable workstation for collaborative working in a network comprises a conventional operating system and network control layer for controlling physical routing of data between nodes. A collaborative application subsystem which interfaces with conventional telephones is responsive to a predetermined call from a collaboration call manager to establish the call manager at the node to handle incoming events which are not specific to any application program instances at the node.