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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. 17, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 28, 1997
Paul B. Monday, Rochester, MN (US);
Maurice Allan Zipse, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and computer program product for managing distributed applications on a local computer system, and a distributed application manager are provided. The distributed Application manager running at a local computer system keeps a list of available distributed applications as well as a list of servers from which these distributed applications can be downloaded. The distributed application manager presents a selection screen to the user, containing a list of available distributed applications; and based on a user selection from the list, the distributed application manager searches for the distributed application on a path of servers and a path of directories in each server. When the distributed application manager finds the selected application, it downloads the application from the server, installs the selected application at the local computer system and invokes the application for the user.