OPERATING SYSTEM AND APPLICATION VIRTUALIZATION FOR APPLICATION EXECUTION

• US 20110276621A1
• Filed: 05/05/2010
• Published: 11/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Souza, Lidiane, Edery, Yigal
• Application Number:
  US12/773,912
• Publication Number:
  US 20110276621A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45545 Guest-host, i.e. hypervisor is an application program itself, e.g. VirtualBox
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/543 User-generated data transfer, e.g. clipboards, dynamic data exchange [DDE], object linking and embedding [OLE]

Abstract

A system for executing a virtual application may use a virtualized operating system to execute an application. The application may be delivered to a host device through streaming, either to a streaming client in the virtual operating system or as a package that may include the virtualized operating system. The virtualized operating system may have a user interface connection to a host operating system to make the virtual application appear as a native application in the host operating system.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a processor;

a user interface;

a host operating system operable on said processor;

a first virtualized operating system operable within said host operating system, said first virtualized operating system having user interface interconnections with said host operating system; and

a first application virtualization client operable within said first virtualized operating system and configured to receive and execute an application in said first virtualized operating system.

2. The system of claim 1 further comprising:

a local client operable in said host operating system that;

receives a request for said first application; and

causes said virtualized operating system to be executed and said application to be executed.

3. The system of claim 2, said local client having a link in a start menu, said link being configured to launch said local client such that said application is executed.

4. The system of claim 3, said local client that further:

receives an update, said update identifying a second application to execute in a virtual manner; and

adding a second line in said start menu, said second link being configured to launch said local client such that said second application is executed in a second virtualized operating system.

5. The system of claim 4, said first virtualized operating system being a different operating system than said second virtualized operating system.

6. The system of claim 4, said second virtualized operating system being an instance of said first virtualized operating system.

7. The system of claim 1, said user interface connections enabling a cut and paste operation between a second application operable in said host operating system and said application.

8. The system of claim 1, said first virtualized operating system being streamed to said system.

9. The system of claim 8, said first virtualized operating system comprising said first application, said first application being operable natively in said first virtualized operating system.

10. A method performed on a computer processor operating a host operating system, said method comprising:

receiving a user selection for a first application;

launching a virtualized operating system within said host operating system, said virtualized operating system having a user interface connection to said host operating system;

executing said first application within said virtualized operating system, said first application being streamed from an application server.

11. The method of claim 10, said virtualized operation system being streamed from said application server.

12. The method of claim 11, said first application being pre-installed in said virtualized operating system.

13. The method of claim 11, said first application being streamed from said application server.

14. The method of claim 10, said user interface connection comprising file sharing between said host operating system and said first application.

15. The method of claim 10, said user interface connection comprising printer sharing between said host operating system and said first application.

16. A client device comprising:

a processor;

a user interface;

a network connection to a streaming application server;

a host operating system operable on said processor;

a management client operable on said host operating system that;

receives a user input;

launches a first virtualized operating system, and within said first virtualized operating system, launches a first application, said first application being received from said streaming application server.

17. The client device of claim 16, said first application that creates a first graphical user interface, said first virtualized operating system being configured to display said first graphical user interface on said user interface.

18. The client device of claim 17 further comprising:

a second application operable in said host operating system.

19. The client device of claim 18, said second application being configured to link to an object in said first application.

20. The client device of claim 19, said first virtualized operating system being streamed from said streaming application server.