Systems and methods for dynamically updating virtual desktops or virtual applications in a standard computing environment

• US 9,367,512 B2
• Filed: 10/07/2009
• Issued: 06/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: Aventura HQ Incorporated (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Jaudon, Joe, Lowrey, David, Williams, Adam
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheema, Umar
• Application Number:
  US12/575,385
• Publication Number:
  US 20100274841A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,442 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/227
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131

Abstract

The present invention provides systems and methods for dynamically updating computer memory and modifying function requests within virtual computing environments. Methods for updating computer memory environmental variables may comprise methods for modifying, computer processes, methods for providing client applications to capture and respond to information requests, and methods for configuring application frameworks to capture and respond to information requests.

Claims

1. A method of updating client information, comprising:

receiving at a host computing device client location-based information from a client computing device;

updating at the host computing device at least one environmental variable associated with a virtual session, the virtual session comprising a virtualized application executed at the host computing device for access at the client computing device, wherein the updating is based on the client location-based information; and

providing the at least one environmental variable associated with the virtual session to the application in response to a request from the application for location-based information for the session.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the virtual session comprises one of a virtual desktop environment or a virtual application environment.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the updating the at least one environmental variable associated with the virtual session comprises manipulating a computer process at the host computing device to reflect the client location-based information.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the operation of manipulating the computer process at the host computing device comprises manipulating data at the host computing device, wherein the data is within a memory, a registry, a file, a database, or an application.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the updating the at least one environmental variable associated with the virtual session comprises manipulating a computer process at the host computing device such that the client location-based information is substituted in place of host location-based information.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

modifying an operating system function at the client to capture the client location-based information.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

capturing the client location-based information after intercepting an application information request.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

capturing the client location-based information during initiation of the virtual session.

24. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving the client location-based information occurs in response to a user logging on to the client computing device.

25. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

requesting the at least one environmental variable from the client computing device in response to the request from the application for location-based information for the session;

wherein the receiving the client location-based information occurs in response to the request.

9. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having computer program code embodied therein for enabling a client computing device to perform the functions of:

capturing client location-based information at the client computing device during a virtual session the virtual session comprising a virtualized application executed at the host computing device for access at the client computing device; and

transmitting the client location-based information from the computing device to the host computing device to update at least one environmental variable associated with the virtual session based on the client location-based information.

14. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the capturing comprises modifying an operating system function at the computing device to capture the client location-based information.

15. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the capturing client location-based information occurs after intercepting an application information request.

10. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having computer program code embodied therein for enabling a host computing device to perform the functions of:

receiving client location-based information at the host computing device from a client computing device

updating at the host computing device at least one environmental variable associated with a virtual session, the virtual session comprising a virtualized application executed at the host computing device for access at the client computing device, wherein the updating is based on the client location-based information; and

providing the at least one environmental variable associated with the virtual session to an application in response to a request from the application for location-based information for the session.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the updating the at least one environmental variable associated with the virtual session comprises manipulating a computer process at the computing device to reflect the client location-based information.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the manipulating the computer process at the host computing device comprises manipulating data at the host computing device, wherein the data is within a memory, a registry, a file, a database, or an application.

13. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the updating the at least one environmental variable associated with the virtual session comprises manipulating a computer process at the computing device such that the client location-based information is substituted in place of location-based information of the computing device.

16. A system for providing virtual session client location-based information, comprising:

a client-side application on a client computing device; and

a host-side application on a host computing device;

wherein the system is configured to;

capture client location-based information at the client-side application during a virtual session the virtual session comprising a virtualized application executed at the host computing device for access at the client computing device;

transmit the client location-based information from the client-side application to the host-side application to update at least one environmental variable associated with the virtual session based on the client location-based information;

receive the client location-based information at the host-side application;

update at the host-side application the at least one environmental variable associated with the virtual session based on the client-location based information; and

provide the at least one environmental variable associated with the virtual session to an application in response to a request from the application for location-based information for the session.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the virtual session comprises one of a virtual desktop environment or a virtual application environment.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the updating the at least one environmental variable associated with the virtual session comprises manipulating a computer process at the host computing device to reflect the client location-based information.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the manipulating the computer process at the host computing device comprises manipulating data at the host computing device, wherein the data is within a memory, a registry, a file, a database, or an application.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein the updating the at least one environmental variable associated with the virtual session comprises manipulating a computer process at the host computing device such that the client location-based information is substituted in place of host location-based information.

21. The system of claim 16, wherein the capturing comprises modifying an operating system function at the client to capture the client location-based information.

22. The system of claim 16, wherein the capturing client location-based information occurs after intercepting an application information request.

23. The system of claim 16, wherein the capturing client location-based information occurs during initiation of the virtual session.

26. A method of updating client information, comprising:

capturing client location-based information at a client computing device during a virtual session comprising a virtualized application executed at a host computing device for accessed at the client computing device; and

transmitting the client location-based information from the client computing device to the host computing device to update at least one environmental variable associated with the virtual session based on the client location-based information;

receiving a request from the virtualized application for location-based information for the session; and

providing the at least one environmental variable associated with the virutal session in response to the request.

27. The method of claim 26, further comprising:

receiving the request from the virtualized application for the location-based information at the client computing device from the host computing device during initiation of the virtual session.

28. The method of claim 26, further comprising:

receiving the request from the virtualized application for the location-based information at the client computing device in response to a user logging on to the client computing device.

29. The method of claim 26, further comprising:

receiving a copy of the request for the location-based information from the virtualized application at the client computing device;

determining whether the request is applicable to a location of the host computing device or a location of the client computing device; and

responding to the request at the client computing device with the environmental variable in response to determining that the request is applicable to the location of the client computing device.

30. The method of claim 29, further comprising:

responding to the request at the client computing device with a second environmental variable associated with the location of the host computing device in response to determining that the request is applicable to the location of the host computing device.