Patent ID: 8024744

Claim:
A system status reporting system, comprising: a system status receiver, within a first computing node, adapted to receive a computing task queue status for a computing task queue operating on a second computing node, the second computing node being different than the first computing node, wherein the computing tasks queue status contains a subset of available computing task queue status for the computing task queue; a status storage for storing, in response to the system status receiver receiving the computing task queue status, the computing task queue status of the first computing node; a requesting computing node comprising a status query executable, the requesting computing node being different than the first computing node, the status query executable adapted to: accept a user input defining queue status information elements; determine that the queue status information elements are contained within the subset of available computing queue status; send, in response to determining that the queue status information elements not are contained within the subset of available computing queue status, a queue status request for the queue status information elements to the second computing node; and submit, to an electrical data connection of the first computing node in response to determining that the queue status information elements are contained within the subset of available computing queue status, a system computing task queue status request for at least a portion of the computing task queue status for the computing task queue operating on the second computing node, the at least a portion of the computing task queue status comprising the queue status information elements; a system status request receiver for receiving, through the electrical data connection of the first computing node, the system status request, wherein the status storage retrieves, in response to the system status receiver's receiving, the at least a portion of the computing task queue status from the storage; and a system status responder for sending, to the requesting computing node in response to receiving the system computing task queue status request, a computing task queue status response data message containing the at least a portion of the computing task queue status.