SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT DELIVERY SERVICE WITH OFFLINE OPERATIONS

• US 20140172783A1
• Filed: 12/17/2013
• Published: 06/19/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Prowess Consulting, LLC
• Original Assignee: Prowess Consulting, LLC
• Inventors: SUZUKI, Aaron, Dunford, Spencer Bradford
• Application Number:
  US14/109,897
• Publication Number:
  US 20140172783A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/609
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/63 Image based installation; Cloning; Build to order

Abstract

Systems and methods are presented to provide computing environment delivery service with offline operations. The systems and methods presented may provide a cloud based device management and provisioning system that may be by design both hardware and operating system agnostic. The systems and methods may deliver a base file system to a client device over a computer network, queue data items necessary for additional computing functions by priority, and stream the data necessary for additional computing functions to the client device according to the queue.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

delivering, using a file filter driver, a base file system from a client agent to a client device over a computer network;

using one or more computer processors, queuing one or more data items for additional computing functions based on an instruction set, wherein the instruction set includes a data item priority associated with each data item; and

streaming the one or more data items for additional computing functions to a physical disk of the client device according to the priority associated with each data item.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the data items for additional computing functions include user logical layer files.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the file filter driver marks at least one data item as low priority, and wherein the low priority data items are marked as offline on the physical disk.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising transmitting instructions to remove a low priority data item from the physical disk when the low priority data item is marked as offline on the physical disk.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the low priority data items marked as offline are not streamed to the physical disk of the client device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the instruction set further comprises file metadata and a hash index.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

tracking usage data associated with the data items streamed to the physical disk; and

updating the instruction set and the data item priority based on the tracked usage.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising transmitting instructions to mark data files streamed to the physical disk as offline and remove one or more data files based on the updated instruction set.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein transmitting instructions is based on an alert received from the physical disk, wherein the alert comprises disk storage data.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving updated data associated with at least one of the data files;

performing de-duplication based on the received update data, wherein de-duplication may include generating a hash value for the updated data, searching a client agent index for the hash value, and determining whether the update data exists in the client agent index.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the updated data is not transferred to the client agent when the de-duplication determines the update data exists in the client agent index.

12. A system, comprising:

a file filter driver configured to deliver a base file system to a client device over a computer network;

a queue module comprising one or more computer processors configured to queue one or more data items for additional computing functions based on an instruction set, wherein the instruction set includes a data item priority associated with each data item; and

a delivery module configured to stream the one or more data items for additional computing functions to a physical disk of the client device according to the priority associated with each data item

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the data items for additional computing functions include user logical layer files.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the file filter driver marks at least one data item as low priority, and wherein the low priority data items are marked as offline on the physical disk.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the delivery module is further configured to transmit instructions to remove a low priority data item from the physical disk when the low priority data item is marked as offline on the physical disk.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the low priority data items marked as offline are not streamed to the physical disk of the client device.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein the instruction set further comprises file metadata and a hash index.

18. The system of claim 12, further comprising a management module configured to track usage data associated with the data items streamed to the physical disk;

and update the instruction set and the data item priority based on the tracked usage.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the management module is further configured to transmit instructions to mark data files streamed to the physical disk as offline and remove one or more data files based on the updated instruction set.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein transmitting instructions is based on an alert received from the physical disk, wherein the alert comprises disk storage data.