Julie Rene Tran

US Patent:

6314428, Nov 6, 2001

Filed:

Aug 26, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/140375

Inventors:

Glenn Edwards Brew - Austin TX
Steven Michael French - Austin TX
Chakkalamattam Jos Paul - Austin TX
Julie Hong-Van Tran - Austin TX

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 700
G06F 900

US Classification:

707103

Abstract:

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.