公开(公告)号：EP0966712A1

公开(公告)日：1999-12-29

申请号：EP98908218.0

申请日：1998-03-02

申请人： INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION ,  IBM United Kingdom Limited

发明人： CHEN, Shuang ,  FUJISAKI, Tetsunosuke ,  KOBAYASHI, Makoto ,  OHSHIMA, Mitsuru ,  YOSHID, Yoichi

IPC分类号： G06F9 ,  G06F13 ,  G06F15 ,  G06Q30 ,  G06Q40 ,  G07F7 ,  G07F19 ,  H04L12 ,  H04L29

CPC分类号： G07F19/20 ,  G07F17/0014 ,  H04L12/2805 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L67/42

摘要： A server system (195) is connected to a plurality of kiosks (100) by a network (150), e.g., the Internet, corporate or government intranets, extranets, etc. A kiosk has one or more predetermined input/output devices (130) (e.g. displays, keyboards, paper printers, telephones, etc.) and one or more driver programs (110) (local APIs) for each of the input/output devices (130). The displays (103) are used to present one or more graphical user interfaces (105) and video images to a user of the kiosk (100). The kiosk (100) has a browser (160) which it uses to obtain material from the server (195). The server (195) has one or more application files (175) or configuration sets that it serves to the kiosks (100). The configuration sets are application specific (an application is a use for which the kiosks are configured or reconfigured). One or more of the files in the configuration sets include one or more embedded control programs that are used to control the local APIs for the devices on the kiosk. In this way, the devices are controlled to configure the kiosk to perform the application.

公开(公告)号：EP0947086A2

公开(公告)日：1999-10-06

申请号：EP97945959.0

申请日：1997-11-27

申请人： INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

发明人： JORDAN, Robert, Michael ,  RITCHIE, Andrew

IPC分类号： H04M3 ,  H04J3 ,  H04Q11 ,  H04L12

CPC分类号： H04Q11/0478 ,  H04L2012/5626 ,  H04L2012/5671 ,  H04M3/53325

摘要： A distributed voice processing system comprises two or more voice processing machines (50A, 50B), connected by an isochronous network. In the preferred embodiment this network comprises an ATM switch (80) and appropriate ATM links (82A, 82B). Each of the voice processing machines includes telephone line interface units (52) connected to the telephone network (5) via respective telephony channels (15), a TDM bus (54), voice resources (55) (such as voice recognition, voice response functionality, etc.), and an ATM adapter (58) to allow communications over the ATM network. In operation, a call may be received at the line interface unit at a first voice processing machine, and placed onto a TDM bus at that machine. The call is then taken off the TDM bus by the ATM adapter, and routed over the ATM network to the ATM adapter at a second machine, which places the call on the TDM bus at this second machine. The call is then processed by a voice resource at this second machine, which has access to the TDM bus, thereby allowing a call to be handled by a line interface unit at a first voice processing machine and a voice resource at a second voice processing machine.

公开(公告)号：EP0799482A1

公开(公告)日：1997-10-08

申请号：EP95937136.0

申请日：1995-11-30

申请人： International Business Machines Corporation ,  IBM United Kingdom Limited

发明人： SHAFE', Mathew, Kayhan

IPC分类号： G11B25 ,  G11B33

CPC分类号： G11B33/122 ,  G11B25/043

摘要： An electronic circuit (4) has local storage provided by a miniature disk drive (6).