公开(公告)号：GB2272311A

公开(公告)日：1994-05-11

申请号：GB9223520

申请日：1992-11-10

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： ALDRED BARRY KEITH ,  BONSALL GORDON WILLIAM ,  LAMBERT HOWARD S ,  MITCHELL HARRY DAVID

IPC: G06F15/00 ,  G06F9/46 ,  G06F9/48 ,  G06F9/50 ,  G06F13/00 ,  G06F15/16

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.

公开(公告)号：GB2272312A

公开(公告)日：1994-05-11

申请号：GB9223521

申请日：1992-11-10

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： ALDRED BARRY KEITH ,  BONSALL GORDON WILLIAM ,  LAMBERT HOWARD S ,  MITCHELL HARRY DAVID

IPC: G06F13/00 ,  G06F9/46 ,  G06F15/16

Abstract: A programmable workstation for collaborative working in a network comprises a conventional operating system and a network control program layer. Additionally, the workstation includes a collaborative application support subsystem for interfacing with application programs. The subsystem is responsive to predetermined application program calls to create a logical network model of a collaborative environment. The model comprises sharing sets of application programs, which share data and resources across nodes and logical dedicated data channels connecting members of the sharing set. The subsystem cooperates with the network layer to establish the physical links necessary to implement the model in a physical network, transparently to the application program.