Patent ID: 8862713

Claim:
A method of remotely managing a managed machine, the method comprising: identifying the managed machine operating in a communication network; transmitting a connection establishment message to the managed machine over the communication network via an administrator plug-in application initiating the connection establishment message via a secure channel to a server process of the managed machine; responsive to receiving the connection establishment message, creating, by the server process, a corresponding command prompt child process that is dedicated to receiving command prompt commands; receiving, via the secure channel, an acceptance message from the managed machine responsive to the connection establishment message being received; and transmitting a command prompt command over the communication network to be executed on the managed machine to the server process that is currently operating on the managed machine; wherein transmitting the command prompt command over the communication network to be executed on the managed machine is performed after an indicator is received that the command prompt child process has been executed and that commands may be received by the managed machine.