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Method and apparatus for controlling connected computers without programming

  • US 6,144,984 A
  • Filed: 04/25/1997
  • Issued: 11/07/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/22/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In a computer network including a plurality of computers, including a first computer and a second computer, each computer including a storage area for selectively storing a plurality of objects, each object including a plurality of tasks, each task including either a Widget on an interactive display with inputs and outputs or a computer executable process, each task further including an enable-address variable resolvable to at least one network address of a computer upon which the task will run, the storage area of each computer for further storing a plurality of interconnections which interconnect inputs and outputs of the tasks in a predetermined manner, a computer implemented process for executing an application on the plurality of networked computers, the process comprising:

  • 1. presenting on the first computer a palette of selected ones of the plurality of objects;

    2. receiving a plurality of user inputs on the first computer each replacing an object in the storage area of the first computer with a user selected object in the palette to construct an application including a plurality of objects;

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