Patent ID: 7387258

Claim:
A method for deploying an application comprised of a number of distributed remote elements, said deploying being initiated from a first data processing means containing a number of descriptors corresponding to respective ones of said elements deployable onto a second data processing means, said descriptors including priority values indicative of a deployment priority of the corresponding elements, and said second data processing means being linked to means for physically locating the elements and executing the application once deployed, the method comprising the following steps: identifying one or more elements of the application having a priority value not less than a predetermined urgency value as priority elements, said priority elements having a higher deployment priority than other elements of the application; deploying the identified priority elements onto the second processing means; executing the application by the second processing means as soon as the priority elements have been deployed; and deploying the other elements of the application onto the second processing means after initiating execution of the application based on the priority values corresponding to the other elements.