SYSTEM, METHOD, SERVER AND DEVICE FOR TRIAL USE OF APPLICATION SOFTWARE

• US 20160100036A1
• Filed: 10/06/2015
• Published: 04/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Vmfive Inc.
• Original Assignee: Vmfive Inc.
• Inventors: LO, Yin-Tsung, DING, Jiun-Hung, LEE, Hsu-En
• Application Number:
  US14/876,161
• Publication Number:
  US 20160100036A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/08 specially adapted for terminal emulation, e.g. Telnet

Abstract

A system for trial use of application software comprises at least one user device and a server. The server is communicatively coupled to the user device. The server receives a request data for trying an application software, the request data is generated corresponding to an input on the user device, the server executes at least one part of the application software according to the request data and establishes a two-way communication with the user device, and the server and the user device transmits at least one image data and at least one control data via the two-way communication.

Claims

1. A system for trial use of application software, comprising:

at least one user device; and

a server, communicatively coupled to the user device;

wherein the server receives a request data for trying an application software, the request data is generated corresponding to an input on the user device, the server executes at least one part of the application software according to the request data and establishes a two-way communication with the user device, and the server and the user device transmits at least one image data and at least one control data via the two-way communication.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the server comprises at least one cluster computing unit, the cluster computing unit comprises at least one cluster node, and the server executes the application software by the cluster node.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the cluster node comprises at least one virtual machine, and the server executes the application software by the virtual machine.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein the virtual machine executes an operating system corresponding to the application software, and executes the application software on the operating system.

5. The system according to claim 3, further comprising another user device, wherein the server receives another request data for trying another application software, another request data is generated corresponding to an input on another user device, and the server executes another application software on the same virtual machine according to another request data.

6. The system according to claim 3, wherein the virtual machine executes an I/O agent to transfer data to the user device via the two-way communication.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the server comprises a memory unit storing a snapshot data of which the state is that the server executes the application software.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the server comprises an application program interface unit, a service session manager and a resource pool manager, the application program interface unit receives the request data, the service session manager generates a service session data according to the request data, the resource pool manager obtains/generates a data related to the execution of the application software according to the service session data, and the server executes the application software according to the data related to the execution of the application software.

9. A server applied to a system for trial use of application software, wherein the system comprises the server and at least one user device, the server is communicatively coupled to the user device, the server comprising:

at least one memory unit;

at least one transmitting unit; and

one or more than one computing unit, respectively communicatively coupled to the memory unit and the transmitting unit, wherein the transmitting unit receives a request data, the request data is generated corresponding to an input on the user device, the computing unit executes at least one part of the application software stored in the memory unit according to the request data and establishes a two-way communication with the user device by the transmitting unit, and the server and the user device transfer at least one image data and at least one control data via the two-way communication.

10. The server according to claim 9, further comprising at least one cluster computing unit, wherein the cluster computing unit comprises at least one cluster node, and the server executes the application software by the cluster node.

11. The server according to claim 10, wherein the cluster node comprises at least one virtual machine, and the server executes the application software by the virtual machine.

12. The server according to claim 11, wherein the virtual machine executes an operating system corresponding to the application software, and executes the application software on the operating system.

13. The server according to claim 11, wherein the server receives another request data for trying another application software, another request data is generated corresponding to an input on another user device, and the server executes another application software on the same virtual machine according to another request data.

14. The server according to claim 11, wherein the virtual machine executes an I/O agent to transfer data to the user device via the two-way communication.

15. The server according to claim 9, wherein the memory unit stores a snapshot data of which the state is that the server executes the application software.

16. The server according to claim 9, further comprising an application program interface unit, a service session manager and a resource pool manager, wherein the application program interface unit receives the request data, the service session manager generates a service session data according to the request data, the resource pool manager obtains/generates a data related to the execution of the application software according to the service session data, and the server executes the application software according to the data related to the execution of the application software.

17. A method of trying application software applied to a system for trial use of application software, wherein the system comprises at least one user device and a server, and the server is communicatively coupled to the user device, the method comprising:

generating a request data corresponding to an input by the user device for trying an application software;

receiving the request data by the server;

executing at least one part of the application software by the server according to the request data;

establishing a two-way communication by the server and the user device; and

transferring at least one image data and at least one control data via the two-way communication by the server and the user device.

18. The method according to claim 17, comprising:

confirming the trial environment of the user device by the server before executing at least one part of the application software.

19. The method according to claim 17, comprising:

confirming the state of the stored application software by the server before executing at least one part of the application software.

20. The method according to claim 17, comprising:

loading an application software download data by the user device after the transfer of the image data is ended.