SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY UPDATING VIRTUAL DESKTOPS OR VIRTUAL APPLICATIONS IN A STANDARD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

• US 20100274841A1
• Filed: 10/07/2009
• 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: LOWREY, DAVID, JAUDON, JOE
• Granted Patent: US 9,367,512 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files
• 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:

capturing client location-based information at a client computing device during a virtual session, wherein the virtual session is between the client computing device and a host computing device providing the virtual session;

transmitting the client-location based information from the client computing device to the host computing device;

receiving at the host computing device client-location based information; and

updating at the host computing device the virtual session based on the client-location based information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the virtual session comprises one of a virtual desktop environment or a virtual application environment.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein updating the virtual session comprises manipulating a computer process at the host computing device to reflect the client location-based information.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the operation of manipulating the computer process at the host computing device comprises manipulating data at the host computing device, wherein the data is within a memory, a registry, a file, a database, or an application.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein updating the virtual session comprises manipulating a computer process at the host computing device such that the client location-based information is substituted in place of host location-based information.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the operation of capturing comprises modifying an operating system function at the client to capture the client location-based information.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the operation of capturing client location-based information is invoked after intercepting an application information request.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the operation of capturing client location-based information is performed during initiation of the virtual session.

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

capturing client location-based information at the computing device during a virtual session, wherein the virtual session is between the computing device and a host computing device providing the virtual session; and

transmitting the client-location based information from the computing device to the host computing device.

14. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the operation of capturing comprises modifying an operating system function at the computing device to capture the client location-based information.

15. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the operation of capturing client location-based information is invoked after intercepting an application information request.

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

receiving client-location based information at a computing device, wherein a virtual session exists between a client computing device and the computing device providing the virtual session; and

updating at the computing device the virtual session based on the client-location based information.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein updating the virtual session comprises manipulating a computer process at the computing device to reflect the client location-based information.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the operation of manipulating the computer process at the host computing device comprises manipulating data at the host computing device, wherein the data is within a memory, a registry, a file, a database, or an application.

13. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein updating the virtual session comprises manipulating a computer process at the computing device such that the client location-based information is substituted in place of location-based information of the computing device.

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

a client-side application on a client computing device; and

a host-side application on a host computing device;

wherein the system is configured to;

capture client location-based information at a client-side application during a virtual session, wherein the virtual session is between the client computing device and the host computing device providing the virtual session;

transmit the client-location based information from the client-side application to a host-side application;

receive client-location based information at the host-side application; and

update at the host-side application the virtual session based on the client-location based information.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the virtual session comprises one of a virtual desktop environment or a virtual application environment.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein updating the virtual session comprises manipulating a computer process at the host computing device to reflect the client location-based information.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the operation of manipulating the computer process at the host computing device comprises manipulating data at the host computing device, wherein the data is within a memory, a registry, a file, a database, or an application.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein updating the virtual session comprises manipulating a computer process at the host computing device such that the client location-based information is substituted in place of host location-based information.

21. The system of claim 16, wherein the operation of capturing comprises modifying an operating system function at the client to capture the client location-based information.

22. The system of claim 16, wherein the operation of capturing client location-based information is invoked after intercepting an application information request.

23. The system of claim 16, wherein the operation of capturing client location-based information is performed during initiation of the virtual session.