Patent ID: 7603450
Filing Date: 2009-10-13
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method executing on hardware of providing a network management service for a user's IT network by using a network management service provider connected to an Internet, the method performed by the service provider comprising: sending mobile code to the user via the Internet, said mobile code, when running at a user's side, being such as to cause a computer at the user's side to act as a network management gateway between the user's network and the service provider; sending at least one request for execution of a network management step to the network management gateway at the user's side via the Internet, the at least one request for the execution of the network management step being such as to cause the network management step to be carried out in the user's network; and receiving, from the network management gateway via the Internet, result data obtained as a result of the network executing the network management step.