Patent attributes
A method and apparatus for distributed computing in a brokering environment is disclosed. In this environment, the broker system receives a program and data set from a consumer system and partitions them into sub programs and data subsets, respectively, and generates a trigger that is communicated to a web property system that includes a web property over a first communication path. When the web property is accessed by an end user computer, the end user computer responds to the trigger and sends a request to the broker system via a second communication path. In response, the broker system communicates a subprogram and data subset, via the second communication path, to the end user computer, which executes the subprogram and data subset and communicates the resulting data to the broker system, which may communicate the resulting data to the consumer system.
