Patent ID: 7299274

Claim:
A distributed system for managing two or more resources, the distributed system comprising: one or more objects, the one or more objects comprising information; two or more resources, wherein each resource is operable to manage the information of one or more objects, the two or more resources comprising one or more resources of differing type; two or more datastores, each datastore in electrical communication with one of the resources, each datastore storing objects associated with an associated resource; a management module in communication with the two or more resources; the management module operable to receive a request to access information from one or more of the resources, the management module operable to access the information from the one or more resources; wherein two or more resources, of differing type, manage the information of a same object; wherein the information relates to one or more clients that use the two or more resources; wherein each object comprises: one or more attributes, each attribute having a data field and a value; one or more associated tasks that may be performed on the object; and wherein the management module accesses attribute and task information from the associated resources in response to a request to access information.