Call management in a collaborative working network
First Claim
1. A programmable workstation for collaborative working in a network in which workstations represent nodes of the network, the network being connected by physical links for supporting communications between nodes, each node including an operating system and application programs, and potentially having at plurality of call manager programs responsible for handling incoming communications which are not specific to a particular application program instance running at the node, wherein only one call manager can be active at a node at any given time;
- the workstation comprising;
a network control program layer, running on the operating system, for controlling physical routing of said communications between nodes; and
a collaborative application subsystem for interfacing with the application programs running on the workstation, said collaborative application subsystem being responsive to a predetermined application program call from a call manager program running on the workstation to establish that call manager program as the active call manager program at the node to handle incoming events which are not specific to any application program instance at the node.
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Abstract
A programmable workstation for collaborative working in a network comprises a conventional operating system and network control layer for controlling physical routing of data between nodes. A collaborative application subsystem which interfaces with application programs is responsive to a predetermined call from a collaboration call manager to establish the call manager at the node to handle incoming events which are not specific to any application program instances at the node.
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8 Claims
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1. A programmable workstation for collaborative working in a network in which workstations represent nodes of the network, the network being connected by physical links for supporting communications between nodes, each node including an operating system and application programs, and potentially having at plurality of call manager programs responsible for handling incoming communications which are not specific to a particular application program instance running at the node, wherein only one call manager can be active at a node at any given time;
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the workstation comprising; a network control program layer, running on the operating system, for controlling physical routing of said communications between nodes; and a collaborative application subsystem for interfacing with the application programs running on the workstation, said collaborative application subsystem being responsive to a predetermined application program call from a call manager program running on the workstation to establish that call manager program as the active call manager program at the node to handle incoming events which are not specific to any application program instance at the node. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A method of collaborative working in a network in which programmable workstations represent nodes of the network, the network being connected by physical links for supporting communications between nodes, each node including an operating system and application programs and potentially having a plurality of call manager programs responsible for handling incoming communications which are not specific to a particular application program instance running at the node, wherein only one call manager can be active at a node at any given time, each workstation including a collaborative application support system for interfacing with applications running on the workstation, the method comprising:
receiving, at the collaborative application support system, a predetermined application program call from a call manager program running on the workstation, and establishing, responsive to said predetermined application program call, the call manager program as being the active call manager at that node responsible for handling incoming communications which are not specific to any application program running at the node. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8)
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