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Sessions to host processes with special requirements

  • US 8,539,020 B2
  • Filed: 06/14/2010
  • Issued: 09/17/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for enabling a service executing in an isolated session on a system to access a system resource from which the service is isolated, comprising:

  • instantiating a worker session by an operating system operating on the system, the worker session being a separate session from the isolated session and the worker session being a separate session from any user session executing on the system, instantiating the worker session including creating the worker session by a service executing in the isolated session by establishing a loopback remote presentation session connection to the system;

    instantiating a worker process, the worker process executing in the worker session, the worker process having access to the system resource;

    receiving by the service, a first communication indicative of a request from a first process to access the system resource;

    sending, by the service, a second communication indicative of a request to the worker process to access the system resource;

    in response to receiving, by the worker process, the second communication, accessing the system resource to produce a first result; and

    transmitting, by the worker process, the first result to the service.

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