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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2002
Alexei Volkov, Mountain View, CA (US);
Allan S. Jacobs, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Alexei Volkov, Mountain View, CA (US);
Allan S. Jacobs, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An invention is disclosed for a distributed shell for use in a distributed computer environment. The distributed shell includes a shell server, which is located on a server computer system. The shell server processes commands for distribution to particular client computer systems of the distributed computer system. In addition, the distributed shell includes a plurality of shell clients. Each shell client is executed on a separate client computer system and is in communication with the shell server. In operation, the shell server selects a particular shell client to perform a task or tasks in response to receiving a command. The tasks are then sent to the selected shell client and the shell client executes the task.