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Method, apparatus and system for enhancing the usability of virtual machines

  • US 8,479,193 B2
  • Filed: 12/17/2004
  • Issued: 07/02/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2004
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for enhancing usability of a plurality of virtual machines (“

  • VMs”

    ) established on a VM host, the method comprising;

    presenting, on the VM host, a unified interface to provide a user of the VM host a view of a plurality of applications executed in different VMs of the plurality of VMs;

    intercepting, on a VM host, an incoming communication from a source remote to the VM host;

    examining the communication to determine whether the communication includes an attached data file;

    if the communication does not include the attached data file, allowing a virtual machine manager to deliver the communication to a recipient VM of the plurality of VMs;

    if the communication includes the attached data file;

    examining the communication to determine a communication type;

    examining the data file to determine a data file type;

    examining at least one descriptor module to determine how to handle the communication and the data file based on the communication type and the data file type; and

    processing the data file and the communication according to information in at least one descriptor module,wherein processing the communication comprises directing the communication to a VM of the plurality of VMs that is different from the recipient VM to which the communication was originally destined.

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