SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING LOCAL FILES USING REMOTE APPLICATIONS

• US 20100106804A1
• Filed: 10/27/2009
• Published: 04/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Jin, Xing, Zhao, Yang, Wang, Qingbo, He, Le
• Application Number:
  US12/606,389
• Publication Number:
  US 20100106804A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/176 Support for shared access to files; File sharing support

Abstract

A system and method for processing local files using remote applications. The system includes an apparatus for processing local files using remote applications, including: an operation capturing unit configured to capture user operations on local files, and send operation requests to a server; a file sharing unit configured to share said local files in a network and send a sharing path to the server; and a remote desktop unit configured to connect to the target processing appliance using remote desktop. The system also includes a remote application management server, including: file type matching unit configured to match the local file to a particular remote application; a processing appliance choosing unit configured to determine a target processing appliance; and an instruction file generating unit configured to generate an instruction file for the above processing appliances. The methods correspond to the above apparatus and server.

Claims

1. An apparatus for processing local files using remote applications, comprising:

an operation capturing unit to capture user operations on local files and send operation requests to a server;

a file sharing unit to share said local files in a network and send a sharing path to the server; and

a remote desktop unit to connect to the target processing appliance using remote desktop in response to information of a target processing appliance associated with remote application received from the server.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said operation capturing unit extracts file information of said local files, the file information comprising at least one of a file name, a file path and a file type.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

said operation requests include a closing request, which contains information of the target processing appliance;

said file sharing unit stops sharing said local files in response to a notice of closing the target processing appliance from the server; and

said remote desktop unit disconnects with said target processing appliance in response to said notice.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said file sharing unit realizes file sharing using at least one of a Network File System (NFS), Andrew File System (AFS), or Common Internet File System (CIFS).

5. A remote application management server for managing remote applications in processing appliances, comprising:

a file type matching unit match a local file to a particular remote application in response to received file information of the local file on client side;

a processing appliance choosing unit to determine a target processing appliance associated with said particular remote application and send the information of the target processing appliance to a client; and

an instruction file generating unit to generate an instruction file for the processing appliances in response to a received file sharing path, wherein the instruction file contains said file sharing path.

6. The server of claim 5, wherein said file type matching unit identifies the file type according to said file information.

7. The server of claim 5, wherein said processing appliance choosing unit determines the target processing appliance associated with said particular remote application by looking up stored information in a processing appliance repository.

8. The server of claim 7, wherein said stored information includes:

an address of each processing appliance and remote applications installed in each processing appliance of at least one processing appliance.

9. The server of claim 5, wherein said processing appliance is virtual appliance.

10. The server of claim 9, wherein said instruction file further comprises:

deployment information of a target virtual appliance.

11. The server of claim 9, further comprising a virtual appliance deployment tool driving unit to encapsulate said instruction file into a format matching with the virtual appliance deployment tool and send it to said virtual appliance deployment tool.

12. A system for processing local files using remote applications, comprising the server of claim 5 and an apparatus for processing local files using remote applications comprising:

an operation capturing unit to capture user operations on local files and send operation requests to a server;

a file sharing unit to share said local files in a network and send a sharing path to the server; and

a remote desktop unit to connect to the target processing appliance using remote desktop in response to information of a target processing appliance associated with remote application received from the server.

13. A method for processing local files using remote applications, comprising the steps of:

capturing user operations on local files and sending operation requests to a server;

sharing said local files in a network and sending a sharing path to the server; and

connecting to a target processing appliance using a remote desktop in response to information of the target processing appliance associated with the remote application received from the server.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising extracting file information of said local files, the file information comprising at least one of a file name, a file path and a file type.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

stopping sharing said local files, and disconnecting with said target processing appliance in response to a notice of closing the target processing appliance from the server.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the step of sharing said local files in the network comprises:

realizing file sharing using at least one of a Network File System (NFS), Andrew File System (AFS), or Common Internet File System (CIFS).

17. A method for managing remote applications in processing appliances, comprising the steps of:

matching a local file to a particular remote application in response to a received file information of a local file on client side;

determining a target processing appliance associated with said particular remote application and sending information of the target processing appliance to client; and

generating an instruction file for the above processing appliances in response to a received file sharing path, wherein the instruction file contains a file sharing path.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

identifying file type according to said file information.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the step of determining the target processing appliance comprises:

determining the target processing appliance associated with said particular remote application by looking up stored information in a processing appliance repository.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein said stored information comprises:

an address of each processing appliance and the remote applications installed in each processing appliance of at least one processing appliance.

21. The method of claim 17, wherein said processing appliance is a virtual appliance.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein said instruction file further comprises deployment information of the target virtual appliance.

23. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

encapsulating said instruction file into a format matching with the virtual appliance deployment tool and sending it to said virtual appliance deployment tool.