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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 18, 1997
Marcia Lynn Brandt, Rochester, MN (US);
Charles Embrey Carmack, Jr, Rochester, MN (US);
Joseph Vincent DiCecco, Rochester, MN (US);
Jason Robert Hansen, Chatfield, MN (US);
Thomas Michael Moskalik, Rochester, MN (US);
Timothy Jude O'Keefe, Rochester, MN (US);
Diane Elaine Olson, Rochester, MN (US);
Devon Daniel Snyder, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a system and method of workstation configuration that includes a multi-level hierarchy management of preferences which are essentially managed and stored with a file server, rather than with each individual workstation. The invention comprises a computer network that includes workstations that have configurable hardware devices and software applications; a workstation server connected to the workstations that includes hierarchical preference files containing configuration information; and a preference manager for providing a coalesced, or merged, set of configuration parameters to the workstations based on the information in the hierarchical preference files.