Abstract: A communication platform for providing computer/telephony integration services to remote subscribers comprises: a hosted call switching unit in communication with an external telephone network or interconnected networks through a communications trunk; for each subscriber, a subscriber telephony component, such as an intelligent agent, executed by processing means belonging to the communication platform and connected to an external subscriber's information system through a permanent private secure data channel, whereby said subscriber telephony component can communicate in a private manner with other information system components of said subscriber so as to be logically part of said information system, each subscriber component being capable of controlling said switching unit according to subscriber data; resources available to each subscriber telephony component in association with call processing or routing; means for allocating resources to each telephone call handled by a subscriber telephony component

Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing access to an application through a user terminal, comprising: executing an application and generating visual application output data; creating video data from the visual application output data, the video data being in a format of the user terminal; and sending the video data to the user terminal through a video channel.

Abstract: A distributed multiprocessing system, comprises several hosts connected to a network. Each host has a processing unit and internal memory accessed by the processing unit. In addition, each host further has an access device connected to a fault tolerant external memory unit by a fast connection. Each processing unit accesses the external memory unit transparently. The processing units of the distributed multiprocessing system thus share the same view of the external memory unit. This makes it possible to use symmetric multiprocessing memory sharing mechanisms, in a distributed multiprocessing system, due to the reduction of latency overheads by 4 or 5 orders of magnitude compared with standard DMP interconnect methods.

Abstract: A distributed multiprocessing system, comprises several hosts (2, 3, 4) connected to a network (1); each host has a processing unit (21, 31, 41) and internal memory (22, 32, 42) accessed by the processing unit; in addition, each host further has an access device (24, 34, 44) connected to a fault tolerant external memory unit (6) by a fast connection (25, 35, 45). Each processing unit accesses the external memory unit transparently.

Abstract: A communication platform for providing computer/telephony integration services to remote subscribers comprises: