Appeal No. 2000-2091
Application 08/441,024
a server which supervises data;
a plurality of clients for which the server
supervises data in a memory unit in the server, each
client down-loads data, which is required for a data
processing in each client, from the server and returns
the data to the server after the data processing is
finished, each of said clients comprising:
a data receiving process downloading the data from
the server;
a server supervisor that determines whether the
server is in correct operation or is down by sending data
to the server without receiving an inquiry from said
server;
a not-yet-transferred data memory for storing,
during operation as a client and when the server
supervisor determines that the server is not in
operation, not-yet-transferred data to be returned to the
server when the server returns to operation;
a not-yet-transferred data writing process, during
operation as a client, writing the not-yet-transferred
data to the not-yet transferred data memory when the
server supervisor determine that the server is not in
operation;
a not-yet-transferred data confirming process,
during operation as a client, checking whether the not-
yet-transferred data to be transferred to the server is
present in the not-yet-transferred data memory; and
a not-yet-transferred data transferring process,
during operation as a client, transferring the not-yet-
transferred data to the server, when the not-yet-
transferred data confirming process confirms that the
not-yet-transferred data is present in the not-yet-
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