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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2000
Filed:
May. 05, 1998
Kent Fillmore Hayes, Jr, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system with a network interconnecting a server and a plurality of user stations. A system administrator models users of the system, or user groups, terminals and terminal groups as a hierarchy and sets desktop and user application preferences for each group and for the individual users separately. For a selected group context, say the group of all users of the system, or some subgroup under the group that represents all users, a default set of preferences are determined for a selected user application. The default set is then modified according to preferences that are specifically set forth in the selected group. These preferences may then again modified by a set of preferences that belong specifically to the user.