Historical Timeline

From the early 80's as a key player in the mainframe connectivity space, to the late 90's as the pioneer of the Web-to-Host market and today, as the first company to provide a diagnostic technology that automatically discovers business process inefficiencies, OpenConnect has been a consistent technology innovator.

Below is a list of technology "First's" the Company has brought to market during the last three decades. Since the Company was founded in 1982, the Company has capitalized on a variety of technology shifts and market transitions. The graphic below represents just a few major events that have had an impact on OpenConnect's business strategy.

OpenConnect has submitted and been awarded 9 specific patents on its technologies and has multiple patents pending. Below is a brief description of the patents the Company has received or pending:


5,754,830
Server and Web browser terminal emulator for persistent connection to a legacy host system and method of operation.
5,640,541
Adapter for interfacing a SCSI bus with an IBM system/360/370 I/O interface channel and information system including same.
6,233,543
Server and terminal emulator for persistent connection to a legacy host system with printer emulation.
6,233,542
Server and terminal emulator for persistent connection to a legacy host system with response time monitoring.
6,233,541
Server and Web browser terminal emulator for persistent connection to a legacy host system and method of operation.
6,216,101
Server and terminal emulator for persistent connection to a legacy host system with client token authentication.
6,205,417
Server and terminal emulator for persistent connection to a legacy host system with direct As/400 host interface.
6,205,416
Server and terminal emulator for persistent connection to a legacy host system with direct OS/390 host interface.
6,205,415
Server and terminal emulator for persistent connection to a legacy host system with file transfer.
11/553,890
Modeling Interactions with a Computer System (Pending)
11/775,609
System and Method for Modeling Business Processes (Pending)