Abstract: A system and method for locating an object on a display screen is described which initially establishes, for display objects on a reference display screen, relative positional offsets of such objects from a benchmark object on the screen. When a new display screen is received and that corresponds to a display screen, the system responds to a command to access a requested object on the new display screen by finding the benchmark object on the new screen and determining the requested object's location by reference to preestablished relative position offsets from the found benchmark object.

Abstract: A method and system is described for enabling rapid access from voice-responsive interface processor to applications running on a plurality of connected host processors, each host processor using screens to communicate with the interface processor. The method is performed by the interface processor and includes the steps of: establishing virtual terminal session with each host processor that initializes applications on the host processor and places them in an idle state, awaiting further commands; responding to a user's request that requires one such application by accessing a virtual terminal session in existence with the host processor on which the application is running, entering user data in a screen from the application stored by the interface processor, and transmitting the screen with its entered data to the host processor, whereby the host processor immediately processes the screen; and transmits a new screen to the interface processor, the new screen containing data for the user.