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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 17, 1998
Walter William Casey, Austin, TX (US);
Jeffrey Randell Dean, Austin, TX (US);
Ingrid Milagros Rodriguez, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system is provided for the configuration of operations in a network comprising at least a server computer and a respective plurality of client computers connected to each server computer. The system involves the combination of means for interactively prompting a user to make a sequence of data entries, each of said entries being apparently unrelated to computer operations and covering a demographic aspect of the business environment using the network, and means for allocating network computing components and operations among the computers in the network in response to and based upon said user entries. All of the programming resources which are allocated may be found in the server and the algorithms for allocating and distributing are also on the server. The allocation of programs by the server computer is based upon user profiles for each user developed as a result of the data entries made in response to the above-described prompt panels.