公开(公告)号：JP2002032321A

公开(公告)日：2002-01-31

申请号：JP2001133342

申请日：2001-04-27

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： KANEVSKY DIMITRI ,  ZLASTIN ALEXANDER

IPC: G06F13/10 ,  G06F9/445 ,  G06F12/00 ,  G06F13/00 ,  G06F15/173 ,  G06F17/30

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a substitute driver located at a designated server over the Internet. SOLUTION: When a substitute driver having compatibility over the Internet converts a floppy disk incompatible with a computer, a special general purpose bit reader has to be prepared in a server. Instead of this, a bit reader can be arranged in a user computer and connected to a global server. In this case, all files can be accessed via the Internet. Thus, data can be read and written to/from a disk formatted by a different operating system. In order to carry out an application incompatible with an operating system on a computer, where the disk is inserted, a database server which stores the database for applications of different kinds of operating systems retrieves a similar application with a general-purpose driver on the server.

公开(公告)号：DE10120867A1

公开(公告)日：2001-11-22

申请号：DE10120867

申请日：2001-04-27

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： KANEVSKY DIMITRI ,  ZLASTIN ALEXANDER

IPC: G06F13/10 ,  G06F9/445 ,  G06F12/00 ,  G06F13/00 ,  G06F15/173 ,  G06F17/30

Abstract: The device has a driver that can receive incompatible input data connected to a memory with a CPU driving a bit reader. A universal driver server is connected to the memory via a network. CPU processes read the bit content and pass it to the universal server, which identifies the associated operating system, activates a corresponding server operating system and performs operations on a diskette formatted for a different operating system. The device has a driver that can receive input data incompatible with its operating system. The driver is connected to a memory with a CPU driving a bit reader in the memory. A universal driver server (105) is connected to the memory via a network (103). CPU processes read the bit content and pass it via the network to the universal driver server, in which a process identifies the operating system in which the input data are formatted, activates a corresponding server operating system and performs operations on a diskette formatted for a different operating system. Independent claims are also included for the following: a method of operating a computer system and a machine-readable memory device.

公开(公告)号：DE10120867B4

公开(公告)日：2004-09-30

申请号：DE10120867

申请日：2001-04-27

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： KANEVSKY DIMITRI ,  ZLASTIN ALEXANDER

IPC: G06F13/10 ,  G06F9/445 ,  G06F12/00 ,  G06F13/00 ,  G06F15/173 ,  G06F17/30

Abstract: This invention involves using an alternative driver that is located in a specified server on the Internet. For example, a person could take a floppy disk that is not compatible with their computer and transform it over the Internet through an alternate compatible driver. In order to do this, a special universal bit reader is located within the server. A second variant is that a bit reader would be located in a user's computer and it would be connected to a global server. So, all the files could be accessed through the Internet. This would allow to read and write data from/to a disk that was formatted on a different operational system. In order to solve a problem how to run applications that are not compatible to the operational system on a computer where this disk was inserted, the invention teaches the following approach. A universal driver on the server uses a program that looks for similar applications in a database server that contains a database of applications from different operational systems. The universal driver can identify what programs in the application are needed either reading names of programs on the disk or it can read a special table in which applications point to programs in different operational systems.