MULTISTAGE NETWORK COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE, WITH USER-CENTERED REMOTE OPERATING SYSTEM

摘要

The invention concerns a multistage network computer architecture designed to enable access to a personal resource environment via a network such as Internet, from various access points to different types of client stations. It comprises: a standard relational database server stage including a database manager for executing on request all operations on the database data, said database containing both, in a manner particular to each user, data and documents, by constituting the user organized and unique storage space, and the database manager including remote operating system functional capabilities related to said storage space; a communication stage over the network including a communication server and a client software for jointly communicating in a standard format of the network; and an intermediate software layer server stage connected both to the database server stage and to the communication stage, and including a plurality of servlets, in response to requests from the communication stage, for bringing about the execution, by the database manager, functional capabilities of said remote operating system.