David E Pickett

US Patent:

7568018, Jul 28, 2009

Filed:

Mar 19, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/805173

Inventors:

James B. Hove - St. Paul MN, US
Emily J. D. Harris - Minneapolis MN, US
David A. Pickett - Bloomington MN, US

Assignee:

New Boundary Technologies Inc. - Minneapolis MN

International Classification:

G06F 15/177
G06F 15/16
G06F 15/173
G06F 1/24
G06F 9/44
G06F 17/30
G06F 9/00
G06F 9/24
G06F 9/445
G06F 3/00
G06F 7/00
G06F 12/00
G06F 17/00

US Classification:

709221, 709223, 709224, 709248, 713100, 717169, 717172, 717177, 715735, 715736, 715748, 715749, 707203

Abstract:

The present inventive subject matter relates to networked computing environments and more specifically to dynamic identification and administration of networked clients. Various embodiments of the present inventive subject matter include systems and methods for defining, on a server, a configuration of interest comprising one or more potential properties of a client, communicating the configurations of interest over a network to one or more clients, dynamically evaluating a client state relative to the configurations of interest, and communicating a representation of the client state in relation to the configuration of interest to the server. Further embodiments include automatically creating and displaying associations of clients based on configurations of interest. Yet further embodiments include clients requesting and receiving updates to the configurations of interest. Still further embodiments include actions associated with configurations of interest.