Patent ID: 8448166

Claim:
A server management system for migrating a user state of a computing device from a source computing device to a destination computing device, comprising: (a) a plurality of state migration points (“SMP”) suitable for securely storing the user state and association information of the source computing device in a state migration point directory (“SMP directory”), wherein the SMP's have an accessible or inaccessible status; (b) a plurality of management points (“MP”) suitable for storing association information, wherein each association information comprises the identity of the source computing device, with an identity of the destination computing device, and a list of the plurality of SMP's; and (c) one or more software modules configured to: (i) select one of the plurality of MP's to acquire and populate the association information; (ii) poll the SMP's on the list to locate a SMP having a capacity to store the user state of the source computing device in the SMP directory of the SMP being polled, change the state of the selected SMP to an accessible state and transferring the user state and association information of the source computing device to the SMP directory of the SMP for secure storage in the SMP directory, when the transfer is complete change the SMP to an inaccessible state; and (iii) receive a request from the destination computing device for the user state, (iv) poll MP's to find destination computing devices association information, (v) poll SMP's on the list to locate the SMP containing the transferred user state, authenticating that the destination computing device matches the identity of the destination computing device associated with the identity of the source computing device; (vi) as a result of authentication, change the state of the SMP to an accessible state and transfer the user state of the source computing device securely stored in the SMP directory to the destination computing device, when the transfer is complete change the SMP to an inaccessible state.