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System and method for provisioning universal stateless digital and computing services

a technology of stateless digital and computing services, applied in the field of remote access of digital data and services, can solve the problems of high cost associated with acquiring and maintaining mainframe computers, dumb terminals that cannot process or store data locally, and dumb terminals that are useless, etc., and achieve low overall cost, low maintenance cost, and low cost

Inactive Publication Date: 2008-03-20
XDS INC
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Benefits of technology

This solution provides secure, reliable, and high-performance remote access to digital services, reducing costs and administrative burdens, while ensuring long-term investment protection and unrestricted access to applications and data without the need for constant hardware or software updates.

Problems solved by technology

That is, the dumb terminal did not have the capability of processing or storing data locally.
Essentially, the dumb terminal was useless unless it was connected to the mainframe computers via a dedicated, mainframe and installation-specific communications network.
However, the high cost associated with acquiring and maintaining the mainframe computers fueled the availability and popularity of the desktop or personal computer (“PC”) in the 1980s.
However, users could not easily share data with other users since their PCs were not part of a centralized network and did not necessarily use the same operating system.
Also, since each PC needed its own local copy of any software to be executed, incompatible versions of the same software application in different personal computers prevented users from communicating and sharing data with each other.
These connectivity and compatibility problems with the standalone PCs gave rise to client / server systems.
However, even when it is feasible to upgrade the PC systems, the cost of upgrading thousands of PC systems can be staggering.
For example, newer versions of software applications or operating systems may require hardware capabilities that cannot be satisfied by existing PC systems.
Generally, a PC system is considered to be obsolete in three to five years, thereby necessitating costly replacement of thousands of PCs as often as every three years.
In addition to the cost of purchasing new hardware and software, the cost of resolving the software and hardware compatibility problems in the client / server system can be substantial.
For example, many software applications are not readily backwards compatible, thereby imposing a significant burden on the corporations to maintain compatible versions of software applications on all PC systems.
The administrative effort and the cost to upgrade each system, provide licensed copies of software, install and maintain the software is the largest portion of the recurring costs of running a client / server network in a corporation.
Installation of new software also exposes the corporate user to security risks.
The integrity and security of the corporate network can be easily breached by hackers or disrupted partially or in total by inadvertent or intentional introduction of computer viruses when a user installs or downloads unauthorized and even authorized software application or files.
Consequently, over time, this approach, particularly in view of the on-going support costs of the installed software applications, can become quite expensive.
However, a VPN connection requires expensive VPN termination equipment (or a client-site VPN router) located at each end of the connection, or VPN client software installed and configured at the client machine.
Although either PC operating system or client based VPN software can mitigate the cost of the VPN terminator, it both requires considerable packet processing to assemble and disassemble packets, imposing a significant processing burden on the PC.
Thus VPN equipment is not only expensive, but tedious to configure and costly to administer and maintain.
Once data is downloaded and physically copied, no access or transport security system can prevent unauthorized, uncontrolled distribution and misuse of the data, which happens without the knowledge of the legitimate data owner.
However, both the MetaFrame® and WTS software impose considerable processing load on the client PC, and are vulnerable to network faults and security breaches, such as “man-in-the-middle” attacks.
Additionally, the ASP-based approach, at best, provides a limited remote execution functionality.
The network bandwidth is increasing faster than microprocessor speed and doubling approximately every nine months, thereby reducing the value of the prior art systems and technologies, effectively rendering them obsolete.
However, these savings can't result in a loss of functionality or performance.

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[0028] The present invention is readily implemented using presently available communication apparatuses and electronic components. The invention finds ready application in virtually all communications systems, including but not limited to intranet, local area network (LAN), wireless LAN (WLAN), wide area network (WAN), Internet, private and public communications networks, wireless, satellite, cable network or other online global broadcast, point-to-point, and other networks.

[0029] The present invention provides the basis for a secure, reliable, rich, high-performance access to a wide variety of computational, communications, entertainment and other digital services (collectively referred to herein as “digital services”) while providing enhanced security and without requiring a costly conversion to a new hardware / software infrastructure. The system utilizes low-cost, low-maintenance devices to deliver digital services over a wide variety of communications networks worldwide. The inv...

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Abstract

A service provisioning system and method for providing remote access to digital services over a communications network, comprising a plurality of client devices connected to the communications network for requesting digital services from a plurality of service centers and presenting output from the digital services. The network operation center connected to the communications network authenticates client devices and users, manages sessions, and processes requests for digital services. A connector associated with each service center establishes a session with a client device specified by the network operation center and encapsulates the native protocols of the digital services within a remote interactive protocol. The remote interactive protocol includes information for generating a human-perceptible presentation on the client device, to provide a remote access to the digital services without modifying the hardware and software infrastructure of the service centers.

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RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10 / 328,660, entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVISIONING UNIVERSAL STATELESS DIGITAL AND COMPUTING SERVICES,” filed on Dec. 23, 2002, which claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119(e) to U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60 / 381,532, entitled “SOFTWARE AND SERVICE PROVISIONING ARCHITECTURE FOR UNIVERSAL STATELESS DELIVERY OF ANY DIGITAL AND COMPUTING SERVICES,” filed on May 17, 2002, each of which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety.BACKGROUND OF INVENTION [0002] The present invention relates generally to remote access of digital data and services and, more particularly to a service provisioning system architecture for providing universal stateless digital and computer services. [0003] The configuration of corporate computer systems has evolved over the past fifty years since the introduction of the software programmable digital computer. In the first multi-user systems, some n...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06F15/173G06K17/00G06F15/00H04L29/06H04L29/08
CPCH04L63/0272H04L63/0442H04L63/08H04L69/08H04L67/2823H04L67/14H04L67/28H04L67/08H04L67/56H04L67/565G06F15/16
Inventor DAL CANTO, MARIOCURTIS, MATTHEW J.DUBE, GERARD E.NORTHCUTT, DUANE
Owner XDS INC
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