Patent ID: 7451246

Claim:
A method for enabling a manager to indirectly control a target device the method comprising: transitioning g a directly-controllable target device that is directly controllable by the manager to a first operative state, wherein transitioning includes rebooting the directly-controllable target device to load a service Operating System (OS); receiving, by the directly-controllable target device, a set of one or more instructions; processing, by the directly-controllable target device, the set of one or more instructions while in the first operative state to cause the indirectly-controllable target device to perform a set of one or more operations; and transitioning the directly-controllable target device from the first operative state to a second operative state after processing of the set of one or more instructions, wherein transitioning to a second operative state includes rebooting the directly-controllable target device to load a different operating system (OS).