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Management of multiple instances of legacy application tasks

  • US 9,875,117 B2
  • Filed: 10/31/2016
  • Issued: 01/23/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method in a client computing system for facilitating access to multiple copies of a designated legacy task of a single instance of a hierarchical menu-based legacy application executing on a remote host computer system, wherein the designated legacy task corresponds to a code module accessible from a menu item of the hierarchical menu-based legacy application and wherein each of the multiple copies is a separate instance of the same designated legacy task having associated state, comprising:

  • receiving an indication of a request to copy the designated legacy task of the legacy application;

    responsive to the received request, causing one or more separate sessions to be started with copies of the same designated legacy task of the legacy application, each copy of the designated legacy task executing on the remote host computing system and having an associated state;

    displaying, in a task workspace area, associated summary representations of each of the copies of the executing designated legacy task to facilitate user selection on the client computing system of a desired copy of the executing designated legacy task, each summary representation identifying the associated copy and identifying the associated state of the executing designated legacy task; and

    upon receiving a selection of one of the summary representations, accessing the one of the copies of the executing designated legacy task that is identified by the summary representation using the associated state of the one of the copies of the executing designated legacy task.

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