Patent Document ID: 8078676
Application ID: 10913813
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for managing remote computer training sessions, the method comprising: maintaining a schedule of availability of one or more training computers on a central computer system; receiving selections to schedule a training session on one or more of the available training computers; configuring the one or more selected training computers, by the central computer system, to execute a selected application during the training session; establishing a connection between a first remote computer that is associated with an instructor and the central computer system, and between two or more second remote computers associated with students and the central computer system; establishing a connection between the central computer system and the one or more selected available training computers; controlling a display, keyboard and mouse of one of the selected available training computers from the second remote computers, through the central computer system, during the training session to have the students operate the selected application on the one of the selected available training computers, wherein the first remote computer that is associated with the instructor passes control of the keyboard and mouse of the one of the selected available training computer between the two or more second remote computers; and managing the training session from the first remote computer, through the central computer system, to have the instructor monitor activity during the training session.