US Patent 7890575 Dynamic persistent user management in delegated environments

A delegated environment manager for identifying and inventorying characteristics associated with user's delegated environments. The inventory of the characteristics associated with a particular delegated environment is stored for later retrieval. Upon receiving a request to recreate a previously stored delegated environment, the delegated environment manager retrieves the inventory of the characteristics associated with the requested delegated environment and compares that inventory of characteristics with an inventory of characteristics associated with a user's current delegated environment. Differences between the two inventories are identified and the delegated environment manager alters characteristics as necessary to recreate the previously stored delegated environment.