Patent ID: 8055728

Claim:
In an enterprise computer network comprising a hierarchy of client computers interconnected through a plurality of server computers at a plurality of hierarchical levels, a system for giving a selected controller computer remote control of a selected target client computer in the network comprising: a plurality of server controlled regional hubs, each hub connected to and serving a network region including a set of target client computers; means for storing at each server controlled regional hub, a remote control object including data necessary to access and remotely control each of the target client computers served by said hub; a global master hub connected to said plurality of said regional hubs, said global master hub being normally functionally independent of the regional hubs and the sets of target computers served by said hubs; at least one remote controller computer connected to said global master hub; means in said remote controller for requesting control of a selected target computer via said global master hub; and means responsive to said requesting means to transmit said remote control object of the regional hub serving the selected target computer to said global hub whereby said global hub acts like a proxy of said regional hub in establishing control by said remote controller of said selected target computer.