Patent ID: 7328234

Claim:
A computer program product embodied on a computer readable medium for controlling a target computer to perform an operation in response to data received from an initiating computer, said computer program product comprising: agent process code for executing on said target computer to provide an agent process to: receive at an agent process executing on said target computer autonomously generated operation specifying data sent from said initiating computer to said target computer; read from said operation specifying data an identifier of a target process for performing said operation; and if said target process is available to said target computer to pass at least a portion of said operation specifying data from said agent process to said target process; and target process code operable to provide one or more target processes for performing operations in response to operation specifying data, said one or more target processes being provided at said target computer independently of said agent process; wherein said operation performed includes configuring said target computer to execute a computer program; wherein said target process is operable to map configuration data specified within said operation specifying data to a configuration data store of said target computer; wherein said configuration data store is one of: a Windows Registry entry; an INI file; a DAPI store; and a database entry; wherein said identifier of a target process includes at least one of: data specifying a computer file operable to trigger said target process; data specifying a communication channel operable to trigger said target process; and data specifying an operating system command operable to trigger said target process.