PROXIMITY AND CONTEXT AWARE MOBILE WORKSPACES IN ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS

• US 20140344420A1
• Filed: 02/04/2014
• Published: 11/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc. (Cloud Software Group)
• Original Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc. (Cloud Software Group)
• Inventors: Momchilov, Georgy, Rjeili, Joe Abou, Freedman, Joseph L.
• Granted Patent: US 10,243,786 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0803 Configuration setting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2007/145 Handheld terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/30 Services specially adapted for particular environments, situations or purposes
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

Methods and systems for configuring computing devices using mobile workspace contexts based on proximity to locations are described herein. A mobile computing device determines that the device is proximate to a location, another device, or an individual associated with an enterprise system. The mobile computing device may then receive a mobile workspace context associated with the location, device, or individual, such as one or more specific wireless networks, enterprise applications, and/or documents, and may configure the device based on the received mobile workspace context. Additional methods and systems are described herein for transmitting and receiving sets of device capabilities between multiple devices, establishing communication sessions, and sharing various capabilities between devices. Still additional methods and systems are described for determining and accessing the capabilities of enterprise system resources using mobile computing devices in an enterprise system.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

determining, by a mobile computing device, that the mobile computing device is located proximate to a first location;

receiving, by the mobile computing device, a mobile workspace context associated with the first location; and

configuring the mobile computing device based on the mobile workspace context associated with the first location.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining that the mobile computing device is located proximate to the first location comprises receiving data from a near field communication tag.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein determining that the mobile computing device is located proximate to the first location comprises determining a current location using a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver of the mobile computing device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein determining that the mobile computing device is located proximate to the first location comprises scanning or photographing an object using a scanner or camera of the mobile computing device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the mobile workspace context associated with the first location comprises receiving an identifier of a first wireless network, and wherein configuring the mobile computing device comprises using the identifier to establish a connection to the first wireless network.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile workspace context comprises one or more enterprise applications associated with the first location, and wherein configuring the mobile computing device comprises configuring a client agent application on the mobile computing device to allow access to the one or more enterprise applications.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile workspace context associated with the first location comprises one or more documents, and wherein configuring the mobile computing device comprises configuring a client agent application on the mobile computing device to allow access to the one or more documents.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first location corresponds to an office or a conference room in a workplace environment, and wherein receiving the mobile workspace context associated with the office or conference room comprises:

accessing a calendar or scheduling data associated with the office or conference room;

retrieving current meeting data associated with the office or conference room; and

determining one or more applications or documents based on the current meeting data.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein determining that the mobile computing device is located proximate to the first location comprises determining a current location using a beacon or Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) receiver of the mobile computing device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the mobile workspace context associated with the first location comprises receiving an identifier of a first enterprise device or application management framework, and wherein configuring the mobile computing device comprises configuring a client agent application on the mobile computing device to enroll the mobile computing device with the first enterprise device or application management framework.

11. A method comprising:

determining, by a first mobile computing device, that the first mobile computing device is located proximate to a second computing device;

transmitting, by the first mobile computing device, a first set of device capabilities to the second computing device;

receiving, by the first mobile computing device, a second set of device capabilities from the second computing device;

establishing, by the first mobile computing device, a persistent communication session with the second computing device; and

sharing, by the first mobile computing device, at least one of the first set of device capabilities or the second set of device capabilities with the second computing device, via the persistent communication session.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving, at the first mobile computing device, user input selecting the first set of device capabilities for sharing from a larger set of device capabilities available for sharing at the first mobile computing device.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the user input selecting the first set of device capabilities for sharing is received before determining that the first mobile computing device is proximately located to the second computing device.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the user input selecting the first set of device capabilities for sharing is received after determining that the first mobile computing device is proximately located to the second computing device, and wherein the selected first set of device capabilities to share is specific to the persistent communication session with the second computing device.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the persistent communication session comprises a two-way sharing communication session between the first mobile computing device and the second computing device, and wherein said sharing comprises:

persistently transmitting data to the second computing device over a first time period, the transmitted data corresponding to a first device capability out of the first set of device capabilities; and

persistently receiving data from the second computing device over the first time period, the received data corresponding to a second device capability out of the second set of device capabilities.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving, at the first mobile computing device, user input authorizing one-way sharing of device capabilities with the second computing device but not authorizing two-way sharing of device capabilities with the second computing device, and wherein the sharing comprises a one-way sharing session of device capabilities in accordance with the user input.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

determining that the first mobile computing device is located proximate to a third computing device;

transmitting the first set of device capabilities to the third computing device;

receiving a third set of device capabilities from the third computing device; and

establishing a second persistent communication session with the third computing device,

wherein said sharing comprises sharing one or more device capabilities with the second computing device using the persistent communication session, and sharing one or more additional device capabilities with the third computing device using the second persistent communication session, during a same time period.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein transmitting the first set of device capabilities to the second computing device comprises transmitting data identifying one or more input or output functional capabilities of the first mobile computing device, including at least one of:

data identifying a number of display screens on the first mobile computing device;

data identifying a size of a display screen of the first mobile computing device;

data identifying a touch screen capability of the first mobile computing device;

data identifying a peripheral input or output device connected to the first mobile computing device;

data identifying a video display capability of the first mobile computing device;

data identifying a camera capability of the first mobile computing device, data identifying a microphone capability of the first mobile computing device, or data identifying a speech recognition capability of the first mobile computing device.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein transmitting the first set of device capabilities to the second computing device comprises transmitting data identifying one or more application sessions executing at the first mobile computing device, the method further comprising:

determining that the one or more application sessions have been started at the second computing device; and

terminating the one or more application sessions at the first computing device.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein said one or more application sessions are virtual application sessions, and wherein starting the one or more application sessions at the second computing device comprises configuring a client agent application on the second computing device to allow access to the one or more virtual application sessions.

21. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving first user input at the first mobile computing device;

receiving, at the first mobile computing device, second user input from the second computing device over the persistent communication session; and

modifying, at the first mobile computing device, the received first user input, the received second user input, or both of the received first user input and the received second user input.

22. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

dropping at least a portion of the first user input or at least a portion of the second user input.

23. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

converting the second user input according to the first set of device capabilities, wherein said conversion comprises at least one of;

converting touch events to mouse events or vice versa;

converting touch events to keyboard events or vice versa;

converting voice data to text data or vice versa;

or converting motion or orientation events to touch events or vice versa.