Abstract: A method for remote services authentication in an internet hosted environment includes a high level process and functionality for a secure, practical and logically optimized inter-network authentication mechanism by employees, partners and customers of an enterprise into the hosted Internet site. The lightweight authentication and authorization mechanism can be most effectively implemented in Java as part of the application or web server servlet. The method for remote services authentication includes initial secure password establishment, subsequent authentication and authorization, as well as authentication and authorization upon resuming previously run sessions with the hosted server using Internet cookies.

Abstract: A method for remote services authentication in an internet hosted environment includes a high level process and functionality for a secure, practical and logically optimized inter-network authentication mechanism by employees, partners and customers of an enterprise into the hosted Internet site. The lightweight authentication and authorization mechanism can be most effectively implemented in Java as part of the application or web server servlet. The method for remote services authentication includes initial secure password establishment, subsequent authentication and authorization, as well as authentication and authorization upon resuming previously run sessions with the hosted server using Internet cookies.

Abstract: A method for remote services authentication in an internet hosted environment includes a high level process and functionality for a secure, practical and logically optimized inter-network authentication mechanism by employees, partners and customers of an enterprise into the hosted Internet site. The lightweight authentication and authorization mechanism can be most effectively implemented in Java as part of the application or web server servlet. The method for remote services authentication includes initial secure password establishment, subsequent authentication and authorization, as well as authentication and authorization upon resuming previously run sessions with the hosted server using Internet cookies.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is the creation and utilization of automated diagnostic agents that are used by service engineers to diagnose faults, errors and other events or conditions within a grid-based computing system, and provide a derived list of suspect root causes for the events. Related computerized processes and network architectures and systems supporting such agents are also disclosed. The automated diagnostic agents utilize software driven rules engines that operate on facts or data, such as telemetry and event information and data in particular, according to a set of rules. The rules engine utilize a neural network analysis environment to predict in accordance with the rules, facts and data found in the grid-based system to make probabilistic determinations about the grid. Particular memory allocations, diagnostic process and subprocess interactions, and rule constructs are disclosed.