Techniques for controlling desktop state

• US 8,819,703 B2
• Filed: 02/26/2009
• Issued: 08/26/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Pasupathilingam, Sankarasivasubramanian, Venkateswaran, Srinivasa Ragavan
• Primary Examiner(s): Truong, Lechi
• Assistant Examiner(s): SEYE, ABDOU K
• Application Number:
  US12/393,281
• Publication Number:
  US 20100218187A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,007 Days
• Field of Search: 719/318
• US Class Current: 719/318
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/545 Gui
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications

Abstract

Techniques for controlling desktop state are provided. Processing events are associated with desktop states and are associated with resource actions. When a desktop encounters the processing events and a known state is established, automated actions are forced on the resources to customize the known state.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method that is adapted to be executed by a processor to perform the method, comprising, comprising:

receiving, by a desktop state controller, inter-process communication information from a desktop bus executing in a processing environment of a client desktop;

identifying, by the desktop state controller using the inter-process communication information, events being exchanged between applications executing in the processing environment;

matching each event detected within the processing environment to a profile that includes each of the identified events;

matching one or more of the identified events to a known transition state for the processing environment;

comparing the one or more identified events to configured events or configured combinations of events that map to the known transition state;

identifying the configured events or the configured combinations of events as a user-defined state, which is the known transition state and which was previously configured by a user of the client desktop; and

instructing a number of services to take predefined actions in response to the known transition state to customize a user'"'"'s experience while the user executes in the known transition state within the client desktop, wherein instructing the number of services to take the predefined actions comprises one selected from a group consisting of;

(i) recognizing the known transition state as a secure state and providing instructions to logging services on the desktop to temporarily shut down and not log any activities of a user during the secure state; and

(ii) recognizing the known transition state as a particular state that attempts to maximize processor throughput of the processor for a designated service by turning off or throttling down other executing services on the processor during the known transition state.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising, instructing the number of services to resume their normal processing that existed or that was scheduled to exist on the client desktop before the predefined actions were taken when the known transition state terminates within the client desktop.