Appeal No. 1997-0240
Application No. 08/163,761
load concentration state or an abnormal state in a particular
client machine device, functions of such client machine device
are transferred to another client machine device for
execution.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the invention and reads as
follows:
1. A client server system for use with a plurality of
control devices comprising:
server means for providing a server function;
a plurality of client machine devices, each having a
common memory, a data collection task for collecting data from
control devices, a data generation task for processing data
collected by said data collecting task and providing said
processed data as an output to said server as a common file,
and a data base data processing task for providing at least
one of data to said common memory and a processing request to
said server means; wherein each said client machine device
comprises:
means for providing a database data generation task, said
data generation task comprising a plurality of first
functional tasks, each first functional task corresponding to
a different generation function;
means for providing a data base data processing task,
said data processing task comprising a plurality of second
functional tasks, each second functional task corresponding to
a different processing function;
detecting means for detecting at least one of a work load
concentration state and an abnormal state in other ones of
said client machine devices;
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