Abstract: Apparatus and a method for requesting establishment of a virtual connection for transmitting voice signals over a packet network. In response to operation of a soft button, the signaling messages for establishing a pre-specified point-to-point connection, conference connection or one-way conference connection are automatically generated. Advantageously, complex pre-specified connections can be established in response to the operation of a soft button.

Abstract: The distributed network application management system provides distributed data processing services in a data communication network environment. This system dynamically allocates resources to a processing request that is received from a user application device that has limited processing capabilities using application modules that are machine-independent and network independent to thereby process the received request in the network, yet in a manner that appears to be implemented on the user application device. The distributed network application management system is implemented in a network environment using a kernel that represents the network protocol and the effective processor is dynamically created in the network as capacity becomes available. The applications in this system are distributed via the network without meta code being written for the application.