Appeal No. 2001-2369
Application 08/728,422
The disclosed invention pertains to an operating
environment for use on a computer system that includes a network
connecting the computer to other computers. User applications
running on the computer generate operating system commands
requiring access to the network and commands requiring operating
system actions that do not access the network. The invention has
an emulation library which forwards commands to a network server
or a non-network server based on whether network services are
required.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method for operating a computer system to provide
operating system services to a user application running on said
computer system including a network connecting said computer
system to at least one other computer system, said user
application generating operating system commands requiring access
to said network, commands requiring operating system actions that
do not access said network, said method comprising providing an
operating system including:
a network server for accessing said network;
a non-network server for executing operating system commands
not requiring network services;
an emulation library, separate from said network server and
said non-network server, for receiving said operating system
commands generated by said user application, for decoding each of
said received operating system commands to determine if that
command requires network services, and forwarding a command based
on that received command to said non-network server or said
network server depending on whether or not that command requires
network services.
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