Patent ID: 7664752
Filing Date: 2010-02-16
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method performed at a management server computer connected to one or more computing devices comprising: receiving, by the management server computer, a request from a particular computing device of a user to run a task at the one or more computing devices, wherein user authorization is based on instance space or class space, wherein the instance space specifies a group of computing devices accessible to the user, and wherein the class space specifies a class of computing devices accessible to the user; authorizing, by the management server computer, the user to run the task; validating, by the management server computer, the authority of the user to run the task; and verifying, by the management server computer, to the user by sending alerts to the particular computing device of the user that the task request has been successfully performed by the one or more computing devices.