Appeal No. 2004-2102
Application No. 09/191,256
Microsoft Internet Explorer. The system and method of the
present invention includes defining a set of application
programming interfaces (APIs) or verbs that may be called
remotely or from the same machine that the client portion of the
client-server software is running on. The client user interface
code then uses these new APIs to remotely invoke the client
operations. These APIs provide the ability to have one to one
communication or two way communication, for example sending a
query and getting a reply. Further, there may be one to multiple
relationship between a query request being sent and the number or
replies. Similarly, there may be a multiple to one relationship
between the number or queries and the number of replies. From a
browser, an end user enters a URL containing a machine name and a
port number separated by a colon. A listening program at the
client listening on that port number established communication
with the browser and invokes a client agent. The client agent
includes conventional client functions as well as APIs that allow
the client to interface with both the server and the browser.
The client agent then serves an applet to the browser that makes
the browser appear to the end user as the client machine. The
applet can execute in the national language of either the client
or the browser. The user can then execute client functions from
the browser such as requesting the client to back itself up to
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