公开(公告)号：US06314428B1

公开(公告)日：2001-11-06

申请号：US09140375

申请日：1998-08-26

申请人： Glenn Edwards Brew ,  Steven Michael French ,  Chakkalamattam Jos Paul ,  Julie Hong-Van Tran

发明人： Glenn Edwards Brew ,  Steven Michael French ,  Chakkalamattam Jos Paul ,  Julie Hong-Van Tran

IPC分类号： G06F700

CPC分类号： G06F9/44505 ,  Y10S707/99944 ,  Y10S707/99945

摘要： A method and apparatus for application management in a multiuser networked data processing environment are implemented. An application definition is generated for each application available to users on the network. Each application definition includes a plurality of application parameters, the values of which may be set by a system administrator. Application definitions are stored in a database on a domain controller. A subset of application parameters are user overridable. Each application definition may be associated with at least one user by a system administrator, whereby the corresponding application is made available to each such user. User overridable parameters may be assigned user specific values, which may be different for each user associated with the application definition. These are also stored in the domain controller database with the user associations. At a user logon on a client processor, the portion of the domain controller database corresponding to the user is retrieved by a desktop builder, and a local copy generated on the client processor. Using the local copy of the application definitions associated with the user, the desktop builder presents to the user a representation of each application associated with the user. The user may access each application thereby, wherein a desktop and each application are customized for the user.

摘要翻译： 实现了在多用户联网数据处理环境中的应用管理的方法和装置。 为网络上的用户可用的每个应用程序生成应用程序定义。 每个应用定义包括多个应用参数，其值可由系统管理员设置。 应用程序定义存储在域控制器上的数据库中。 应用程序参数的一个子集是用户可覆盖的。 每个应用定义可以由系统管理员与至少一个用户相关联，由此使相应的应用可用于每个这样的用户。 可以为用户可覆盖的参数分配用户特定的值，对于与应用定义相关联的每个用户可以不同。 这些也存储在具有用户关联的域控制器数据库中。 在用户登录客户端处理器时，与用户相对应的域控制器数据库部分由桌面构建器和在客户机处理器上生成的本地副本进行检索。 使用与用户相关联的应用定义的本地副本，桌面构建器向用户呈现与用户相关联的每个应用的表示。 用户可以访问每个应用程序，其中为用户定制桌面和每个应用程序。

公开(公告)号：US06466972B1

公开(公告)日：2002-10-15

申请号：US09282632

申请日：1999-03-31

申请人： Chakkalamattam Jos Paul ,  Steven Michael French ,  Aidon Paul Jennery ,  Glenn Edwards Brew ,  James Richard Schoech

发明人： Chakkalamattam Jos Paul ,  Steven Michael French ,  Aidon Paul Jennery ,  Glenn Edwards Brew ,  James Richard Schoech

IPC分类号： G06F1730

CPC分类号： G06F9/4416 ,  G06F9/44505

摘要： The present invention provides a system for creating server-managed configuration information for computing devices. The configuration information is composed of individual configuration components. The configuration components can be grouped for convenience into templates called machine classes, which can be used to manage a set of similar machines. Configuration components and machine classes can be stored permanently in a database. Machine classes are instantiated with machine-specific information such as network addresses and configuration information for peripherals to produce fully configured operating systems for a computing device. Software and configuration information is installed based on the machine class selected. Individual configuration components can be added or overridden when the machine instance is created. The machine instance can be customized with additional configuration information, such as its network address(es), machine name, and video resolution. The machine instance can be used either to boot a device remotely or to install the operating system locally on the computing device.

摘要翻译： 本发明提供了一种用于为计算设备创建服务器管理的配置信息的系统。 配置信息由各个配置组件组成。 配置组件可以被分组以便于称为机器类的模板，其可以用于管理一组类似的机器。 配置组件和机器类可以永久存储在数据库中。 机器类使用机器特定信息（例如网络地址和外围设备的配置信息）进行实例化，以便为计算设备生成完全配置的操作系统。 软件和配置信息根据所选机器类进行安装。 创建机器实例时，可以添加或覆盖各个配置组件。 机器实例可以使用其他配置信息进行定制，例如其网络地址，机器名称和视频分辨率。 机器实例可用于远程引导设备或在计算设备上本地安装操作系统。