David Kwan

US Patent:

6480867, Nov 12, 2002

Filed:

Jul 6, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/348651

Inventors:

David Taiwai Kwan - Los Gatos CA

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 1500

US Classification:

707536, 707 1, 707 10, 709245, 709246

Abstract:

System and method aspects for filesystem management in a multilingual distributed computer environment are described. A system includes at least one server system for storing filesystem objects. A remote system is further included for remotely performing filesystem management operations on the filesystem objects of the at least one server system. At least one client system is provided for the at least one server system to support remote access to the filesystem objects by the remote system through a client agent, the client agent providing Unicode encoding of filesystem objects passed between the remote system and the at least one server system to ensure conversion of filesystem objects to a universal translation form, wherein proper recognition and management of filesystem objects occur in the remote system of the multilingual distributed computer environment.

US Patent:

7506033, Mar 17, 2009

Filed:

Nov 12, 1998

Appl. No.:

09/191256

Inventors:

Douglas Robert Case - San Jose CA, US
David Derk - Morgan Hill CA, US
James Michael Dile - San Jose CA, US
Avishai Haim Hochberg - San Jose CA, US
David T. Kwan - Los Gatos CA, US
Pete Tanenhaus - San Jose CA, US
Randy Tung - San Jose CA, US
John Viksne - San Mateo CA, US
Brett Walker - San Jose CA, US
Hui-Lan Wen - San Jose CA, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 15/16
G06F 3/00

US Classification:

709217, 709203

Abstract:

The present invention provides a system and method for remotely accessing a client in a client-server system. From a browser, an end user enters a URL containing a machine name and a port number. A listening program at the client listening on that port number establishes 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 user can then execute client functions from the browser. Examples of the client functions include backing up and restoring files from the client to/from the server, migrating or recalling files, archiving or retrieving files.