Patent ID: 8065402

Claim:
A network management method for securely managing a computer resource from a remote user terminal, comprising: receiving a network management command in said computer resource from said remote user terminal, wherein both said remote user terminal and said computer resource comprise a Short Message Service (SMS) interface, said network management command being transmitted from said remote user terminal to said computer resource as an SMS message comprising a flag identifying said SMS message as a network management message, said network management command comprising a network address corresponding to said remote user terminal; in response to a determination that said computer resource is able to identify said network address corresponding to said remote user terminal, executing the network management command with said computer resource to establish a network connection between said remote user terminal and said computer resource using said network address; and in response to a determination that said computer resource is unable to identify said network address corresponding to said remote user terminal, transmitting a network address of said computer resource to said remote user terminal.