NEW DELHI, INDIA: IT and consultancy major IBM has filed a patent application in India for its newly developed portable personal computing environment server.

The MNC has also applied for in some other parts of the globe for the patent of personal computing environment server. The US authorities and World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has already granted patent licence to IBM for it.

Developed by two Indians, Chandrashekhar Narayanswami and T M Raghunath, IBM filed its patent application on January 14 this year, claiming that the "developed server can change the entire computing paradigm".

Accepting the application, the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, has issued a notice its recent journal seeking public opinion on the application.

The new portable server is a basically a interface-based equipment, which could enable a user to work on all operating systems and has not to bother about any licences, upgrades, security patches and backups etc.

"The portable personal computing environment server comprises a storage device storing a personal computing environment, including one or more operating systems for restoring the personal computing environment in the host system," claimed IBM before the patent authorities.

IBM simplifies about the use of this server by saying that consider about a knowledge worker.

The user could carry his portable personal computing environment server home, do some work at home and bring it back to work the next morning and connect to his office personal computer and resume where he left off without worry about synchronising his data.