International Business Machines Corporation

Christopher Walter Kempin

Rhonda L Childress

Jonathan Samn

Oluyemi Babatunde Saka

Toby Burton

Andrea Denise Franklin

Jennifer Saiman Lo

Cindy Marie Uanino

An enterprise computer network comprising a hierarchy of client computers interconnected through a plurality of server computers at a plurality of hierarchical levels. A system, method and object oriented computer program for giving a selected controller computer remote control of a selected target client computer in the network comprising the combination of a plurality of server controlled regional hubs, each hub connected to and serving a network region including a set of target client computers; and a function for storing at each server controlled regional hub, a remote control object including data necessary to access and remotely control each of the target client computers served by said hub. This is essentially a standard regional set up for remote control by a remote controller. Into this environment, there is combined a global master hub connected to the plurality of regional hubs, the global master hub being normally functionally independent of the regional hubs and the sets of target computers served by said hubs. The remote controller computers are selectively connected to this global master hub, and there are means in each remote controller for requesting control of a selected target computer via said global master hub combined with means responsive to said requesting means to transmit the remote control object of the regional hub serving the selected target computer to said global hub whereby the global hub acts like a proxy of said regional hub in establishing control by said remote controller of said selected target computer.

Remote control of selected target client computers in enterprise computer networks through global master hubs

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Christopher Walter Kempin