Prestaging objects in a distributed environment
First Claim
1. A distributed processing system having a host processor, a work station connected to said host processor, means for receiving data objects into said host processor, heuristic means in said host processor for predicting likelihood of use at said work station of different data objects, examining means in said host processor including said heuristic means for examining each of said data objects and for determining whether said each of said data objects is likely to be used at said work station, and transmitting means interconnected with said host processor and responsive to said examining means for voluntarily transmitting to said work station those of said data objects which said heuristic means determines is likely to be used at said work station.
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Abstract
A distributed processing system includes a host and at least one connected work station. At the host there are included heuristic logic circuits which respond to information objects received at the host to determine the likelihood of use of each such object by the work station. Information objects likely to be used at the work station are voluntarily transmitted by the host to the work station prior to a request being made by the work station.
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- 1. A distributed processing system having a host processor, a work station connected to said host processor, means for receiving data objects into said host processor, heuristic means in said host processor for predicting likelihood of use at said work station of different data objects, examining means in said host processor including said heuristic means for examining each of said data objects and for determining whether said each of said data objects is likely to be used at said work station, and transmitting means interconnected with said host processor and responsive to said examining means for voluntarily transmitting to said work station those of said data objects which said heuristic means determines is likely to be used at said work station.
- 17. A method of interacting a host processor with a connected work station including the steps of receiving at said host processor a plurality of data objects, examining each of said data objects, determining which of said data objects are likely to be used at said work station, transmitting to said work station prior to request from said work station those objects likely to be used at said work station, and storing at said work station selected ones of those objects received at said work station.
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