Patent ID: 7890575

Claim:
A computer implemented method for dynamic persistent user management in delegated environments, the method comprising: generating a first delegated environment for a user operating a first computing device, the first delegated environment including the delegation of the use or access of at least one service from the first computing device to a second computing device that is logically connected to the first computing device by at least one network or grid; determining characteristics associated with the first delegated environment for a user, wherein at least one of the characteristics includes the type of the at least one service; storing an inventory of the characteristics associated with the first delegated environment; associating the inventory of characteristics associated with the first delegated environment with the user; and recreating, by an operating system associated with a current delegated environment, the first delegated environment from the inventory based on a request identifying the user; wherein the recreating comprises: retrieving the stored inventory of characteristics, comparing the stored inventory of characteristics to a current inventory of characteristics associated with the current delegated environment, the current delegated environment being created after the first delegated environment, determining differences between the stored inventory of characteristics and the current inventory of characteristics by interacting with the stored inventory of characteristics to ascertain changes necessary to characteristics of the current delegated environment to recreate the first delegated environment, and altering the current inventory of characteristics to match the stored inventory of characteristics by using the differences to add or delete at least one characteristic to or from the current inventory.