Patent Document ID: 7594015
Application ID: 10712155
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method for managing a plurality of computer devices in a client server network, said method comprising: maintaining a plurality of grid managers in a grid computing environment, wherein each of the plurality of grid managers resides on a computer device and the plurality of grid managers have hierarchical relations, each of the relations being classified as superior or inferior; storing, in each of the plurality computer devices, the hierarchical relations of each grid manager; receiving, from at least one of the plurality of grid managers, current resource loading information, the current resource loading information comprising the computational resources available to the computer device on which the grid manager resides and the computational resources available to all computer devices having an inferior relation to the computer device on which the grid manager resides; receiving, from an application, utilization requirements for computational resources; comparing the utilization requirements to the current resource loading, and based on the comparison, dynamically reconfiguring resource allocations by changing the hierarchical relations between grid managers in the grid computing environment to maintain a predetermined resource allocation level.