Patent ID: 8484317

Claim:
A remote computing system, comprising: an administration computer, capable of communicating with a plurality of network accessible computers and configured to: select a network accessible computer from said plurality of network accessible computers that is compatible with a personal state, said personal state comprising: a virtual user configured to operate autonomously and provide services an operating system, and initial states; and boot said selected network accessible computer using said personal state by performing start-up routines that load said operating system and initial states into a memory of said selected network accessible computer to enable said selected network accessible computer to provide independent computing functions that are accessible via a network; wherein said initial states comprise a workspace of a previously used network accessible computer, said workspace comprising: a previously created file structure, one or more windows that were open at a time said network accessible computer was previously used, one or more system extensions of said previously used network accessible computer, wherein said operating system is modified by said one or more system extensions, one or more values or registers on a central processing unit (CPU) of said previously used network accessible computer, and one or more values or registers in one or more peripheral units of said previously used network accessible computer.