example the gateway computer 246 may be implemented using an ibm pseries rs 6000 or xseries netfinity computer system an enterprise systems architecture 370 available from ibm an enterprise systems architecture 390 computer etc depending on the application a midrange computer such as an application system 400 also known as an as 400 may be employed u201c enterprise systems architecture 370 u201d is a trademark of ibm u201c enterprise systems architecture 390 u201d u201c application system 400 u201d and u201c as 400 u201d are registered trademarks of ibm these are merely representative types of computers with which the present invention may be used the gateway computer 246 may also be coupled 249 to a storage device such as data repository 248 further the gateway 246 may be directly or indirectly coupled to one or more workstations devices 210 d 210 e and servers such as application server 247 those skilled in the art will appreciate that the gateway computer 246 may be located a great geographic distance from the network 242 and similarly the workstations devices may be located a substantial distance from the networks 242 and 244 for example the network 242 may be located in california while the gateway 246 may be located in texas and one or more of the workstations devices 210 may be located in new york the workstations devices 210 may connect to the wireless network 242 using a networking protocol such as the transmission control protocol internet protocol u201c tcp ip u201d over a number of alternative connection media such as cellular phone radio frequency networks satellite networks etc the wireless network 242 preferably connects to the gateway 246 using a network connection.