Pattern
Proactive / Scheduled Loop
Move the routine off your machine and into the cloud, where it persists without your session. A schedule or an external event invokes each run; the routine executes whether or not you are at your desk, and no human is present in real time to end it.
Classification — Invocation type (the cloud holds the stop decision; no human in real time).
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