Architecture of interconnected kiosk systems
Original Publication Date: 1998-Jun-01
Included in the Prior Art Database: 2005-Apr-04
Publishing Venue
IBM
Related People
Agha Ebrahim, P: AUTHOR [+3]
Abstract
The idea is to use a hierarchical and object-oriented organization of the kiosk network. Each single kiosk of the network has the following features: 1. Each kiosk may - independently of other kiosks - establish an interconnection to another kiosk, in order to ask for the latest version of the other kiosk's content and to obtain a copy of said latest version. 2. Each kiosk is able to respond to another kiosk's request for the latest version of contents, and may transfer a version of its actual contents to said requesting kiosk. 3. Timers are implemented at each kiosk, which cause a certain, prespecified event in case of a time-out. These timers may be set or changed by one (or more than one) administrating kiosk(s). 4.
Architecture of interconnected kiosk systems
The idea is to
use a hierarchical and object-oriented
organization of the kiosk network. Each
single kiosk of the network
has the following features:
1.
Each kiosk may - independently of other kiosks - establish
an interconnection to another
kiosk, in order to ask for
the latest version of the other
kiosk's content and to
obtain a copy of said latest
version.
2.
Each kiosk is able to respond to another kiosk's request
for the latest version of
contents, and may transfer a
version of its actual contents to
said requesting kiosk.
3.
Timers are implemented at each kiosk, which cause a
certain, prespecified event in
case of a time-out. These
timers may be set or changed by
one (or more than one)
administrating kiosk(s).
4.
Each kiosk possesses local configuration data, which
allows to identify the
administrating kiosk and the
respective update server
corresponding to said kiosk.
5.
An administrating kiosk may modify both configuration
data and timer data of related
kiosks via the network
interconnecting the kiosks.
When setting up
the kiosk network, the following rules
have to be obeyed to:
1.
To each edit kiosk a distinguished domain of contents is
assigned. Both the extent of and the access rights to
said domain are established by
means of a hierarchically
superordinated edit kiosk.
2.
All data and objects of a certain domain may only be
modified by the responsible edit
kiosk.
3.
Each object belonging to a kiosk's content is
unambiguously assigned to one of
the domains.
4.
Each kiosk that is not an edit kiosk itself is
assigned to at least one update
server kiosk
(is-update-server-kiosk-of-relation).
5.
In case a kiosk is not an ed...