System for provisioning, allocating, and managing virtual and physical desktop computers in a network computing environment
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1. A system for managing user access to a computer system over a network, comprising:
- at least one user client device sending a connection request to a server computer over a network connecting said user client device to said server computer, wherein said connection request comprises connection information about said user client device;
a broker service running on said server receiving said connection request;
said broker service routing said connection request to a desktop based on said connection information;
said desktop collecting information about the connectivity status of the user client device; and
said data collector program sending said connectivity status to the broker, wherein the broker stores the connectivity status in a database.
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Abstract
A system for provisioning, allocating, and managing virtual and physical desktop computers in an enterprise network computing environment allows for these physical and desktop computers to be grouped logically based on personnel, organizational, or networking efficiencies without regard to the hardware or server that will ultimately run the virtual machine terminal once it is accessed. A connection broker connects incoming connections to one desktop in a desktop group, based on information relating to that incoming connection.
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9 Claims
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1. A system for managing user access to a computer system over a network, comprising:
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at least one user client device sending a connection request to a server computer over a network connecting said user client device to said server computer, wherein said connection request comprises connection information about said user client device; a broker service running on said server receiving said connection request; said broker service routing said connection request to a desktop based on said connection information; said desktop collecting information about the connectivity status of the user client device; and said data collector program sending said connectivity status to the broker, wherein the broker stores the connectivity status in a database. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A computer system, comprises:
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a server computer receiving a connection request; said server parsing said connection request for technical details, said technical details relating to at least one specific application program available on the server; and said server allocating a virtual desktop in response to said connection request, said at least one specific application program being accessible on said virtual desktop, wherein said virtual desktop is created prior to the server receiving the connection request, and wherein said virtual desktop is a member of a desktop group, each of said desktops in said desktop group having access to an identical plurality of applications including said at least one application. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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