Patent Document ID: 7533120
Application ID: 11450051

Base Claim:
1. A method for configuring a computer, the method comprising: obtaining, over a network, from a server that is remote from said computer, a script having commands for configuring said computer; parsing said script; selecting, based on results of parsing said script, and from among a plurality of Plug-Ins, a Scripting Plug-In that maintains communication protocol-specific information that is not possessed by a Scripting Server that performs said parsing and said selecting; and forwarding said script to said Scripting Plug-In, wherein said Scripting Plug-In executes the commands to configure one or more network communication protocols of said computer.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the Scripting Plug-In notifies an operating system if changes are to be made to system settings in response to executing the commands to configure the computer.