Method and architecture for virtual desktop service

• US 9,086,897 B2
• Filed: 03/29/2012
• Issued: 07/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Oh, Myeong-Hoon, Kim, Sun-Wook, Kim, Dae-Won, Kim, Seong-Woon
• Primary Examiner(s): Puente, Emerson
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sun, Charlie
• Application Number:
  US13/434,696
• Publication Number:
  US 20130007737A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,209 Days
• Field of Search: 718/1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4451 User profiles; Roaming
• 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

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and an architecture capable of efficiently providing a virtual desktop service. The service architecture for the virtual desktop service includes a connection broker for performing the management of virtual machines, a server monitoring function, and a protocol coordination function. A resource pool is configured to manage software resources that are transferred to a specific virtual machine in a streaming form at a predetermined time and that are executed on the specific virtual machine and to provide provision information about the managed software resources at the request of the connection broker, in order to provide an on-demand virtual desktop service. A virtual machine infrastructure is configured to support hardware resources, generate virtual machines in which the software of the user terminal is operated, and provide the virtual machines as virtual desktops.

Claims

1. A method for a virtual desktop service, comprising:

validating, by a connection broker, a user by using a user identification (ID) and a password when a user terminal is connected using one or more security protocols;

identifying, by the connection broker, a user profile to allocate a virtual machine and searching for the virtual machine that satisfies a hardware configuration of the user terminal;

transmitting, by the connection broker, information about the hardware configuration to request a virtual machine infrastructure to generate a new virtual machine if there is no suitable virtual machine;

applying, by the connection broker, the user profile to the allocated or generated virtual machine after the virtual machine has been allocated or the new virtual machine has been generated;

generating, by the virtual machine infrastructure, a connection in which a virtual desktop is to be delivered, and dispatching connection information about the generated connection to the connection broker,

wherein the virtual machine infrastructure supports high availability features with predefined configuration parameters, and

wherein running virtual machine instances are generated from a same virtual machine template with the pre-defined configuration parameters and are composed of identical parameters;

transmitting, by the connection broker, the connection information to the user terminal to connect the user terminal to the virtual machine infrastructure,

wherein the connection broker coordinates a delivery protocol including a virtual desktop delivery protocol between the user terminal and a virtual desktop server,

wherein the virtual desktop delivery protocol provides communication channels between the user terminal and the virtual desktop server and transfers interaction information including display, configuration and monitoring information, and

wherein the virtual desktop delivery protocol performs a function for encapsulating and delivering either access to an entire information system environment or access to a remote user terminal via a network; and

updating, by the connection broker, a changed user profile in a user profile pool during execution of a log-off operation.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the applying is configured such that the connection broker installs an operating system and an application required to construct the virtual desktop.

3. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising

managing, by the connection broker, the virtual machine allocated to the user terminal, and

monitoring, by the connection broker, a virtual desktop server for measuring an activity level of the virtual machine.

4. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising

managing, by a resource pool, operating systems, applications, and user profile software resources to be streamed to the virtual machine, and

providing, by the resource pool, information about the managed software resources at a request of the connection broker to support an on-demand virtual desktop service.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the user profiles comprise pieces of individual information about a hardware configuration of the user terminal, an operation system used in the user terminal, an application selected by the user terminal, and computing environment information of the user terminal.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the hardware resources supported by the virtual machine infrastructure are used by hypervisor virtualization technology of a virtual desktop server, which abstracts physical hardware resources and dynamically allocates the physical hardware resources to a higher level of software.

7. A system for providing a virtual desktop service, comprising:

a computer having a processor; and

a non-transitory computer readable medium with computer executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the processor, perform the following method;

validating, by a connection broker, a user by using a user identification (ID) and a password when a user terminal is connected using one or more security protocols;

identifying, by the connection broker, a user profile to allocate a virtual machine and searching for the virtual machine that satisfies a hardware configuration of the user terminal;

transmitting, by the connection broker, information about the hardware configuration to request a virtual machine infrastructure to generate a new virtual machine if there is no suitable virtual machine;

applying, by the connection broker, the user profile to the allocated or generated virtual machine after the virtual machine has been allocated or the new virtual machine has been generated;

generating, by the virtual machine infrastructure, a connection in which a virtual desktop is to be delivered, and dispatching connection information about the generated connection to the connection broker,

wherein the virtual machine infrastructure supports high availability features with predefined configuration parameters, and

wherein running virtual machine instances are generated from a same virtual machine template with the pre-defined configuration parameters and are composed of identical parameters;

transmitting, by the connection broker, the connection information to the user terminal to connect the user terminal to the virtual machine infrastructure,

wherein the connection broker coordinates a delivery protocol including a virtual desktop delivery protocol between the user terminal and a virtual desktop server,

wherein the virtual desktop delivery protocol provides communication channels between the user terminal and the virtual desktop server and transfers interaction information including display, configuration and monitoring information, and

wherein the virtual desktop delivery protocol performs a function for encapsulating and delivering either access to an entire information system environment or access to a remote user terminal via a network; and

updating, by the connection broker, a changed user profile in a user profile pool during execution of a log-off operation.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the applying is configured such that the connection broker installs an operating system and an application required to construct the virtual desktop.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the updating is configured such that the connection broker returns the virtual machine so that the virtual machine is available to another user.

10. The system of claim 7, the system further comprising

managing, by the connection broker, the virtual machine allocated to the user terminal, and

monitoring, by the connection broker, a virtual desktop server for measuring an activity level of the virtual machine.

11. The system of claim 7, the system further comprising

managing, by a resource pool, operating systems, applications, and user profile software resources to be streamed to the virtual machine, and

providing, by the resource pool, information about the managed software resources at a request of the connection broker to support an on-demand virtual desktop service.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein the user profiles comprise pieces of individual information about a hardware configuration of the user terminal, an operation system used in the user terminal, an application selected by the user terminal, and computing environment information of the user terminal.

13. The system of claim 7, wherein the hardware resources supported by the virtual machine infrastructure are used by hypervisor virtualization technology of a virtual desktop server, which abstracts physical hardware resources and dynamically allocates the physical hardware resources to a higher level of software.