Sharing and Management of Transferable Virtual Desktop

• US 20120066607A1
• Filed: 03/23/2011
• Published: 03/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ZeroDesktop, Inc.
• Original Assignee: ZeroDesktop, Inc.
• Inventors: Song, Young G., Sah, Richard, Pesek, Frank C.
• Application Number:
  US13/070,390
• Publication Number:
  US 20120066607A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/737
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5077 Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455

Abstract

Each of a plurality of user is given access to replicated version of a virtual computer. The replicated virtual computers are generated by copying a computer profile of an original virtual computer and associated files of the original virtual computer. Each of the users accesses, manipulates and performs operation on the assigned virtual computer as desired without affecting the operations on other users'"'"' virtual computers. After a user finishes using the replicated virtual computer, the replicated virtual computer may be deleted from the remote server or stored as the user'"'"'s virtual computer. The user can store multiple versions of virtual computers, some of which are based on replicated virtual computers.

Claims

1. A method of sharing virtualized computers by a plurality of users, comprising:

receiving data for setting a first computer profile of an original virtual computer from a first user at a computing device, the computer profile representing information about properties and characteristics of the original virtual computer;

creating a replicated virtual computer of the original virtual computer on the computing device by replicating the computer profile responsive to receiving a request from a second user to access the replicated virtual computer; and

performing operations associated with the replicated virtual computer on the computing device responsive to receiving a first input from the second user.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing a second computer profile of the replicated virtual computer on the computing device responsive to receiving a second input from the second user.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting an address for requesting creating of the replicated virtual computer to the second user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the request comprises a HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) request to access resources on the computing device.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the address comprises a URL (Universal Resource Locator).

6. The method of claim 1, wherein a plurality of computer profiles associated with the second user are stored in the computing device.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising instantiating another virtual computer on the computing device responsive to receiving third input selecting the other virtual computer.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing device sends data for presenting the original virtual computer or the replicated virtual computer to a user terminal of the second user using HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) or its variant protocol.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the computing device sends the data comprising JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) objects to the user terminal to present graphical user interfaces corresponding to the original virtual computer or the replicated virtual computer.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the original virtual computer is part of a series of virtual computers published periodically.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the original virtual computer comprises advertisements.

12. A computer system for sharing virtualized computers by a plurality of users, comprising:

a communication module configured to receive data for setting a first computer profile of an original virtual computer from a first user at a computing device, the computer profile representing information about properties and characteristics of the original virtual computer;

a virtual desktop application configured to receive the data from the communication module, the virtual desktop application further configured to;

create a replicated virtual computer of the original virtual computer on the computing device by replicating the computer profile responsive to receiving a request from a second user to access the replicated virtual computer; and

perform operations associated with the replicated virtual computer on the computing device responsive to receiving a first input from the second user.

13. The computer system of claim 12, wherein the virtual desktop application is further configured to store a second computer profile of the replicated virtual computer on the computing device responsive to receiving a second input from the second user.

14. The computer system of claim 12, wherein the virtual desktop application is further configured to transmit an address for requesting creating of the replicated virtual computer to the second user.

15. The computer system of claim 12, wherein the request comprises a HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) request to access resources on the computing device.

16. The computer system of claim 14, wherein the address comprises a URL (Universal Resource Locator).

17. The computer system of claim 12, wherein the virtual desktop application is further configured to store a plurality of computer profiles associated with the second user on the computing device.

18. The computer system of claim 17, wherein the virtual desktop application is further configured to instantiate another virtual computer on the computing device responsive to receiving third input selecting the other virtual computer.

19. The computer system of claim 12, wherein the virtual desktop application is configured to send data for presenting the original virtual computer or the replicated virtual computer to a user terminal of the second user using HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) or its variant protocol.

20. A computer-readable storage medium storing instructions thereon, the instructions when executed by a processor in a computing device, cause the processor to:

receive data for setting a first computer profile of an original virtual computer from a first user, the computer profile representing information about properties and characteristics of the original virtual computer;

create a replicated virtual computer of the original virtual computer on the computing device by replicating the computer profile responsive to receiving a request from a second user to access the replicated virtual computer; and

perform operations associated with the replicated virtual computer on the computing device responsive to receiving an input from the second user.