Identifying users of remote sessions

• US 8,713,088 B2
• Filed: 03/27/2011
• Issued: 04/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Micro Focus LLC (Open Text Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Gopshtein, Michael, Kenigsberg, Eyal, Ioffe, Nick, Steuer, Rotem, Pastukhov, Sergey
• Primary Examiner(s): Jaroenchonwanit, Bunjob
• Application Number:
  US13/072,724
• Publication Number:
  US 20120246215A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,129 Days
• Field of Search: 709/202, 709/203
• US Class Current: 709/202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/54 Interprogram communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/126 the source of the received data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/08 specially adapted for terminal emulation, e.g. Telnet

Abstract

Systems and methods of identifying users of remote sessions are disclosed. In an example, a method includes establishing a remote session in a virtual machine. The method also includes identifying a user of the remote session. The method also includes identifying information of the user in an outgoing request by the virtual machine for access to an application on a backend server during the remote session.

Claims

1. A method of identifying a user of a remote session, comprising:

establishing a remote session in a virtual machine;

identifying a user of the remote session at the virtual machine;

creating a registry key at the virtual machine, the registry key including the identifying information of the user in the outgoing request; and

including identifying information of the user in an outgoing request by the virtual machine for access to an application on a backend server during the remote session.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the user of the remote session is by an identification agent for the virtual machine.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein including comprises adding an IP address and username for the user to an existing Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) header for the outgoing request.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein including comprises including an IP address and username for the user in a separate Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) header for the outgoing request.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein including comprises adding an IP address and username for the user to a User-Agent header value for the outgoing request.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising querying the remote session for the identifying information of the user.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising intercepting the outgoing request by the virtual machine for access to the application before including the identifying information of the user in the outgoing request.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising enriching the outgoing request by the virtual machine for access to the application.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising only intercepting selected requests.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifying information included in the outgoing request by the virtual machine, further includes configuration and corresponding capabilities of a client machine.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium having program code stored thereon for identifying a user of a remote session by:

identifying a user of a remote session;

creating a registry key for including identifying information of the user in an outgoing request from a virtual machine hosting the remote session; and

including identifying information for the user of the remote session in the outgoing request from the virtual machine hosting the remote session for access to an application on a backend server.

12. The program of claim 11 further identifying the user of the remote session by an identification agent for the virtual machine.

13. The program of claim 11 wherein including comprises adding an Internet Protocol (IP) address and username for the user to an existing Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) header for the outgoing request.

14. The program of claim 11 wherein including comprises including an IP address and username for the user in a separate Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) header for the outgoing request.

15. The program of claim 11 wherein including comprises adding an IP address and username for the user to a User-Agent header value for the outgoing request.

16. The program of claim 11 further querying, the remote session for the identifying information of the user.

17. The program of claim 11 further intercepting the outgoing request by the virtual machine for access to the application before enriching the outgoing request with the identifying information of the user.

18. A system comprising a memory storing program instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to implement a query engine and a request modifier, wherein:

the query engine accesses identifying information for a user of a remote session;

a registry key, added by a virtual machine, includes the identifying information in the outgoing request; and

the request modifier includes the identifying information from the registry key in an outgoing request from a virtual machine hosting the remote session for access to an application on a backend server.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the identifying information is one or more of a user name and an IP address.

20. The system of claim 18 wherein the request modifier is configured to include the identifying information by one of:

adding the identifying information to an existing Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) header for the outgoing request;

adding the identifying information to a separate HTTP header for the outgoing request; and

adding the identifying information to a User-Agent header value for the outgoing request.