SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UPDATING COMPUTER MEMORY AND FILE LOCATIONS WITHIN VIRTUAL COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS

• US 20100274837A1
• Filed: 04/22/2009
• Published: 10/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: Aventura HQ Incorporated (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Williams, Adam, Lowrey, David, Jaudon, Joe
• Granted Patent: US 8,234,332 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131

Abstract

The present invention provides systems and methods for dynamically updating computer memory and modifying function requests within virtual computing environments. Methods for updating computer memory environmental variables may comprise methods for modifying, computer processes, methods for providing client applications to capture and respond to information requests, and methods for configuring application frameworks to capture and respond to information requests.

Claims

1. A method of updating client information, comprising:

obtaining client location-based information during a virtual session;

capturing an application information request; and

responding to the request based on the client location-based information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of capturing comprises manipulating a computer process to reflect the obtained client location-based information.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of manipulating the computer process comprises modifying the process to comprise the obtained client location-based information in place of server location-based information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of capturing comprises modifying an operating system function to return the obtained client location-based information or modifying computer memory locations to reflect obtained client location-based information.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of obtaining client-based information comprises receiving the client-based information from a client application or server application.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the client application comprises a framework.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the step of obtaining client location-based information is performed after the step of capturing the application information request and further comprises requesting the client-based information from the client application.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the step of obtaining client location-based information is performed during initiation of the virtual session.

9. A computer program product comprising a computer useable medium having computer program code embodied therein for enabling a computing device to perform the functions of:

obtaining client location-based information during a virtual session;

capturing an application information request; and

responding to the request based on the client location-based information.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the function of capturing comprises manipulating a process to reflect the obtained client location-based information.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the function of manipulating the process comprises modifying the process to comprise the obtained client location-based information in place of server location-based information.

12. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the function of capturing comprises modifying an operating system function to return the obtained client location-based information.

13. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the function of capturing comprises modifying computer memory to return reflect the obtained client location based information.

14. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the function of capturing comprises modifying a computer file to return reflect the obtained client location based information.

15. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the client application comprises an application framework.

16. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the function of obtaining client location-based information is performed after the function of capturing the application information request and further comprises requesting the client-based information from the client application.

17. A system for providing virtual session client location-based information, comprising:

a client-side application; and

a server-side application;

wherein the system is configured to;

obtain client location-based information during a virtual session between the client-side application and the server-side application;

capture an application information request; and

respond to the request based on the client location-based information.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the server-side application is configured to modify a process to comprise the client location-based information in place of server location-based information to capture the application information request.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the client-side application is configured to obtain the client location-based information from a client terminal and send the client location-based information to the server-side application.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the client-side application is configured to obtain the client location-based information in response to a request from the server-side application.

21. The system of claim 19, wherein the client-side application is configured to send the client location-based information to the server certification during initiation of the virtual session.

22. The system of claim 17, wherein the client-side application comprises an application framework.