System for and method of real-time remote access and manipulation of data

• US 20030208529A1
• Filed: 05/03/2002
• Published: 11/06/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Pendyala, Sreenath, Riehl, Jean-Sebastien Pierre
• Application Number:
  US10/138,357
• Publication Number:
  US 20030208529A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

Disclosed is a system for providing access to computer resources from a light client including a host computer platform including (i) an application program configured to interact with a user to provide displayable results and (ii) a host routine configured to interface the application program to a communications link; and a server including (i) a remote routine configured to interactively interface with the host routine on the communications link to provide remote access to the application program, and (ii) a remote access hosting routine configured to provide the displayable results in a form displayable by said light client and to retransmit commands from the user to the application program via the remote routine.

Claims

1. A system for providing access to computer resources from a light client, said system comprising:

a host computer platform including (i) an application program configured to interact with a user to provide displayable results and (ii) a host routine configured to interface said application program to a communications link; and

a server including (i) a remote routine configured to interactively interface with said host routine on said communications link to provide remote access to said application program, and (ii) a remote access hosting routine configured to provide said displayable results in a form displayable by said light client and to retransmit commands from said user to said application program via said remote routine.

2. The system according to claim 1 wherein said remote access hosting routine further comprises an HTML server.

3. The system according to claim 1 further comprising a local area network including a plurality of routers and configured to provide communications between said server and the Internet.

4. The system according to claim 1 further comprising a local device, comprising said light client, configured to access said server and retrieve said displayable page from and provide said commands to said remote access hosting routine.

5. The system according to claim 4 wherein said local device includes an HTML client.

6. The system according to claim 1 further comprising a wireless communications system configured to interface said server with said user.

7. The system according to claim 1 further comprising a database accessible by said user and configured to store information for accessing said host computer platform.

8. The system according to claim 1 wherein said web page hosting routine is responsive to a display property of a remote client for formatting said displayable page.

9. The system according to claim 1 further comprising a local area network including a plurality of nodes interconnected by a communications network, at least one of said nodes comprising said server and at least one of said nodes accessible by a remote device using a wireless communication link.

18. The system according to claim 1 wherein said web page hosting means further comprises an HTML server.

10. A method of providing access to computer resources from a light client comprising the steps of:

receiving a command from a light client for execution of a host application program;

executing said host application program to provide displayable results;

interfacing said host application program to a communications link;

transmitting said displayable results to an intermediate network node;

reformatting said displayable results into a target format; and

retransmitting said displayable results in said target format to said local device.

11. The method according to claim 10 wherein said step of reformatting includes a step of translating said displayable results into an HTML format.

12. The method according to claim 10 wherein said step of reformatting includes a step of hosting a web page.

13. The method according to claim 10 further comprising steps of retrieving said displayable result in said target format as a displayable page from and providing commands to said host application program via said intermediate network node.

14. The method according to claim 10 further comprising a step of interfacing said intermediate network node to said local device over a wireless communications link.

15. The method according to claim 10 further comprising a step of storing information for accessing said host application program in a database.

16. The method according to claim 10 further comprising step of identifying a processing characteristic of said local device and, in response, performing said step of reformatting so as to provide a compatible interface between said application program and said remote device.

17. A system for providing remote access to computer resources comprising:

hosting means including (i) processing means configured to interact with a user to provide displayable results and (ii) local interface means for interfacing said processing means to a communications link; and

server means including (i) a remote interface means configured to interactively interface with said local interface means on said communications link to provide remote access to said processing means, and (ii) a remote access hosting means configured to provide said displayable results in the form of a displayable page and to retransmit commands from a user to said processing means via said remote interface means.

19. A server for providing access to computer resources on a host computer platform from a light client, said server comprising:

a remote routine configured to interactively interface with a host routine resident on the host computer platform to provide remote access to an application program resident on the host computer platform; and

a remote access hosting routine configured to provide displayable results in a form displayable by the light client and to retransmit commands from a user to said application program via said remote routine.

20. The server according to claim 19 wherein said remote access hosting routine further comprises an HTML server.