Patent ID: 8271632

Claim:
A method for managing a computer system by sending information over a computer network, the method comprising: authenticating a user of a client terminal upon receipt at an authentication server of a computer use request from the client terminal and transferring the computer use request from the authentication server to a computer management server over the computer network after the user is authenticated; selecting a remote computer by the computer management server, the remote computer selected from among two or more system remote computers available over the computer network, and sending information about the selected remote computer from the computer management server to the authentication server after a time when the selected remote computer has been started; obtaining connection information at the computer management server from the selected remote computer and providing permission to use from the computer management computer to the client terminal for connection of the client terminal to the selected remote computer; obtaining connection information at a service management server from the computer management server for the connection of the client terminal to the selected remote computer; connecting the client terminal to the selected remote computer without communication through any one of the authentication server, computer management server, and service management server for the connection; sending information about the user of the client terminal and about the client terminal from the authentication server to the service management server; and extracting service information at the service management server about the client terminal and about the selected remote computer, based on the connection information received from the computer management server, and extracting information about the user of the client terminal and about the client terminal at the service management server based on the information received from the authentication server; wherein sending information about the selected remote computer from the computer management server comprises: checking whether the selected remote computer has been started or not; starting the selected remote computer, when the checking indicates that the selected remote computer has not been started; and detecting a time at the start of the selected remote computer and sending the information about the selected remote computer to the authentication server and the service management server.