Jason E Hooper

US Patent:

7035895, Apr 25, 2006

Filed:

Dec 17, 1998

Appl. No.:

09/213907

Inventors:

Jason James Hooper - Austin TX, US
Jerry Frain - Round Rock TX, US
James F. Kelton - Liberty Hill TX, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709201, 709229

Abstract:

A method of managing a set of clients in a distributed computer network having a management server. A given client preferably includes a dataless management framework. According to the method, a manager object is associated to each application to be managed on a given client. The manager object preferably includes a registry composed of a set of elements, with each element corresponding to an instance of the application. The element comprises a data set of information representing a context of the application instance. All application instances are then managed through the manager object.

US Patent:

6757747, Jun 29, 2004

Filed:

Dec 17, 1998

Appl. No.:

09/213915

Inventors:

Jason James Hooper - Austin TX

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 954

US Classification:

709316, 709201, 709202, 709223, 709315, 709317

Abstract:

A method of managing a set of clients in a distributed computer network having a management server. A given client preferably includes a dataless management framework. According to the method, a proxy object is associated to each application instance on a given client. The proxy object preferably includes a data set including information representing a context of the application instance. The application instance is then managed through the proxy object directly.