Inventors:
Ronald A. Butman - Nahant MA
Raja Ramachandran - Allston MA
Thomas A. Burns - Duxbury MA
Thomas J. Malone - South Boston MA
Michael D. Kmiec - Boston MA
Joseph C. Dougherty - West Roxbury MA
International Classification:
G06F 1300
Abstract:
A publication control system for networks inside a client having several publication computers networked together, each of the publication computers having disks for storing a dynamic group registry and resource locators containing function names, a web server which, when executed by the publication computer, causes the publication computer to respond to resource locators by calling the function indicated, a database management program for organizing the dynamic group registry; and a client side communications server, which responds to resource locators directed to it and directs the database management program in organizing the dynamic group registry; the system also has a domain computer having a disk for storing a dynamic client registry and resource locators containing function names; a web server which, when executed by the domain computer, causes the domain computer to respond to the resource locators by calling the function name indicated, a database management program for organizing the dynamic client registry; a domain communications server which, when loaded by the web server, is executed by the domain computer, to respond to resource locators directed to it and to direct the database management program in organizing the dynamic client registry; a domain communications resource locator list in all computers that causes functions to be executed in the domain communications server; a client side communications resource locator list in all computers that causes functions to be executed in each client side communications server so that communications between the domain computer and the publication computers cause the selected functions to control internal publications.