APPLICATION CONFIGURATION ACROSS CLIENT DEVICES OF A LOCAL SYSTEM

• US 20090182955A1
• Filed: 03/27/2009
• Published: 07/16/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: DeskStream, Inc. (WorldDesk Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: DeskStream, Inc. (WorldDesk Ltd.)
• Inventors: CHERUKURI, RAO
• Application Number:
  US12/412,392
• Publication Number:
  US 20090182955A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/141
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0802 Addressing of a memory level in which the access to the desired data or data block requires associative addressing means, e.g. caches
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing

Abstract

A method and a system to application configuration across client devices of a local system are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment provides a method for sharing of an application configuration data across client devices. A local storage device of a local system is updated to comprise an application from a remote storage device of a cloud computing system. The application is accessed from the local storage device. The application with a local processing device is implemented without installing the application on the local processing device when requested by the local processing device. Set of function calls are emulated between the application on the local storage device and an operating system of the local processing device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

updating a local storage device of a local system to comprise an application from a remote storage device of a cloud computing system;

accessing the application from the local storage device;

implementing the application with a local processing device without installing the application on the local processing device when requested by the local processing device; and

emulating a set of function calls between the application on the local storage device and an operating system of the local processing device.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

communicatively coupling the local storage device and the local processing device with a local network capable of transferring data independent of a wide area network associating the local storage device and the cloud computing system.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

communicating the set of function calls between the application on the local storage device and the operating system of the local processing device with the local network.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein without installing the application on the local processing device means that the operating system of the local processing device is not modified to perform the function calls between the application and a platform.

5. The method of claim 4:

further comprising;

analyzing a set of applications used in the local system.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising:

determining a frequency of use value of each application of the set of applications according a statistical methodology.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising:

updating the local storage device of the local system to comprise the application from a remote storage device of a cloud computing system if the application comprises a specified frequency of use value.

8. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

transferring an application component file according to a specified protocol to a memory of the local processing device; and

deleting the application component file from the memory of the local processing device when the application executing on the local processing device is inactive to prevent unauthorized duplication and access of the application according to a licensing term of the application.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising:

communicatively coupling the local processing device with the remote storage device with the wide area network; and

accessing the application from the remote storage device if at least one of a bandwidth of the wide area network bandwidth is greater than an other bandwidth of the local area network and the application is not available from the local storage device.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein implementing the application with the local processing device comprises:

providing required resources between the application and the operating system comprising a registry data, a file system data, and a Dynamic-Link library (DLL) data.

11. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

updating, periodically, a cache of the local system with a copy of a state of the application, and

communicatively coupling the local processing device with the cache.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising:

accessing the application from the cache if the local storage device is offline.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein a machine is caused to perform the method of claim 1 when a set of instructions in a form of a machine-readable medium is executed by the machine.

14. A system comprising:

a cloud interface module to update a local storage device of a local system to comprise an application from a remote storage device of a cloud computing system;

a file retrieval module to access the application from the local storage device;

an execution module to implement the application with a local processing device without installing the application on the local processing device when requested by the local processing device; and

a conveyance module to emulate a set of function calls between the application on the local storage device and an operating system of the local processing device.

15. The system of claim 14:

further comprising a local system configurator to communicatively couple the local storage device and the local processing device with a local network capable of transferring data independent of a wide area network associating the local storage device and the cloud computing system, and

wherein without installing the application on the local processing device means that the operating system of the local processing device is not modified to perform the function calls between the application and the platform.

16. The system of claim 14:

further comprising an analysis module to analyze a set of applications used in the local system, and to determine a frequency of use value of each application of the set of applications according a statistical methodology

wherein the cloud interface module updates the local storage device of the local system to comprise the application from the remote storage device of a cloud computing system if the application comprises a specified frequency of use value.

17. The system of claim 14:

further comprising a cache module to update a cache of the local system with a copy of a state of the application,

wherein the local system configurator communicatively couples the local processing device with the cache, and

wherein the file retrieval module accesses the application from the cache if the local storage device is offline.

18. The system of claim 14,

wherein the conveyance module provides required resources between the application and the operating system comprising a registry data, a file system data, and a Dynamic-Link library (DLL) data,

wherein the local system configurator communicatively couples the local processing device with the remote storage device with the wide area network;

and

wherein the file retrieval module accesses the application from the remote storage device if at least one of a bandwidth of the wide area network bandwidth is greater than an other bandwidth of the local area network and the application is not available from the local storage device.

19. A system comprising:

a cloud data storage of a wide area network to store a data of an application;

a local peer-to-peer network comprising a node and a peer node and wherein the node and the peer node are communicatively coupled through the local peer-to-peer network;

a node of the local peer-to-peer network to access the application from the cloud data storage and to store the application on a data memory of the node; and

a peer node of the local peer-to-peer network to access the application from the memory of the node and to execute the application without installing the application on the peer node, and wherein an operating system of the peer node is not modified to perform the function calls between the application and the operating system, and wherein the peer node accesses the data memory of the node with the local peer-to-peer network.

20. The system of claim 19 further comprising:

a cache node of the local peer-to-peer network to algorithmically store a copy of the application in a memory of the cache node;

a cache management module of at least one of a remote server and the peer node to determine a location of the data of the application and to algorithmically determine a preferred location for accessing the data of the application;

wherein the peer node accesses the cache to execute the application without installing the application on the peer node, and wherein the operating system of the peer node is not modified to perform the function calls between the application and the operating system, and wherein the peer node accesses the memory of the cache node with the local peer-to-peer network

wherein the node, the peer node and the cache node comprise a data processing device and a data memory.