Patent ID: 6999912

Claim:
A system for providing computing services in a networked computing environment, comprising: a domain controller operative to authenticate authority for a computing device to connect to a remote terminal server via a networked computing environment; a remote terminal server operative to connect to a computing device; to provide the computing device a software module for allowing exchange of data between the computing device and the remote terminal server; to provide the computing device, through the software module, an emulation of an operating system of the remote terminal server; to provide the computing device, through the software module, an emulation of the computing device's desktop configuration, the desktop configuration being passed to the computing device from the remote terminal server; to monitor actions at the computing device by the operating system of the remote terminal server; to update the emulation of the operating system provided to the computing device in response to the actions at the computing device; to update the emulation of the desktop configuration provided to the computing device in response to the actions at the computing device; to provide the computing device use of a software application, the software application being resident on the remote terminal server; and a file server operative to receive data from the computing device, and to store the data received at the computing device at the remote terminal server.