Method and system for building a streaming model

• US 9,984,113 B2
• Filed: 09/17/2015
• Issued: 05/29/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Code Systems Incorporated (VOXX International Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Code Systems Incorporated (VOXX International Corporation)
• Inventors: Obata, Kenji C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Fleurantin, Jean B
• Application Number:
  US14/857,684
• Publication Number:
  US 20160004448A1
• Time in Patent Office: 985 Days
• Field of Search: 707602, 707791, 707793, 707797, 707798, 707802, 707804, 707831, 717173, 717174, 717177, 717178
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3466 Performance evaluation by tracing or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/13 File access structures, e.g. distributed indices arrangements of input from, or output to, record carriers G06F3/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/188 Virtual file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2379 Updates performed during online database operations; commit processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9024 Graphs; Linked lists G06F16/9027 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45583 Memory management, e.g. access or allocation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/152 Virtualized environment, e.g. logically partitioned system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0619 in relation to data integrity, e.g. data losses, bit errors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/064 Management of blocks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45537 Provision of facilities of other operating environments, e.g. WINE I/O emulation G06F13/105
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/466 Transaction processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1085 involving dynamic management of active down- or uploading connections

Abstract

A method of constructing a plurality of downloadable files from an application file and a plurality of transcripts. The application file stores data blocks and implements an application. Each of the transcripts stores at least one order in which at least a portion of the data blocks of the application file were accessed by the application when executed previously. The transcripts are combined into a combined transcript storing at least one combined order comprising a combined portion of the data blocks. The data blocks of the combined portion are arranged in a data structure having an origin. A first set of data blocks within a predetermined distance from the origin is stored in at least one initial execution file. A second set of data blocks outside the predetermined distance from the origin is stored in downloadable sequence files.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of constructing a plurality of downloadable files from an application file and a transcript, the application file implementing an application and comprising blocks of data, and the transcript storing at least one order in which at least a portion of the blocks of data of the application file were accessed by the application when the application was executed previously at least once, the method comprising:

arranging the portion of the blocks of data in a data structure in accordance with the at least one order in which the blocks of data were accessed, the data structure having an origin block of data corresponding to a first block of data accessed;

identifying a first set of blocks of data in the data structure within a predetermined distance from the origin block of data;

storing the first set of blocks of data in at least one first file having a file name;

identifying a second set of blocks of data in the data structure beyond the predetermined distance from the origin block of data;

storing the second set of blocks of data in a first plurality of files each having a file name;

identifying a third set of blocks of data not in the data structure;

storing the third set of blocks of data in a second plurality of files each having a file name; and

storing the file names of the first plurality of files, and the second plurality of files in a model file.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the application file is a virtualized application file that when executed, at least partially implements a virtual application.

3. A computer-implemented method of constructing a plurality of downloadable files from an application file and a plurality of transcripts, the application file implementing an application and comprising blocks of data, the method comprising:

combining a plurality of transcripts into a combined transcript, and each of the plurality of transcripts storing at least one order in which at least a portion of the blocks of data of the application file were accessed by the application when the application was executed previously at least once, the combined transcript storing at least one combined order comprising a combined portion of the blocks of data;

arranging the combined portion of the blocks of data in a data structure in accordance with the at least one combined order, the data structure having an origin block of data corresponding to a first block of data accessed in the at least one combined order;

identifying a first set of blocks of data in the data structure within a predetermined distance from the origin block of data;

storing the first set of blocks of data in at least one downloadable initial execution file;

identifying a second set of blocks of data in the data structure outside the predetermined distance from the origin block of data; and

storing the second set of blocks of data in a plurality of downloadable sequence files.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein the application file is a virtualized application file that when executed, at least partially implements a virtual application.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein combining the plurality of transcripts into the combined transcript comprises:

identifying sets of like portions of the at least one orders of the plurality of transcripts; and

for each of the sets identified, combining the like portions of the at least one orders of the plurality of transcripts in the set into an aggregated portion, the aggregated portion comprising a transition from a first block of data of the application file to a second block of data of the application file.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein the plurality of downloadable sequence files each have a file name, and the method further comprises:

identifying a third set of blocks of data not in the data structure;

storing the third set of blocks of data in a plurality of downloadable rest files each having a file name; and

storing the file names of the plurality of downloadable sequence files and the plurality of downloadable rest files in a downloadable model file to be downloaded with the at least one downloadable initial execution file before the plurality of downloadable sequence files and the plurality of downloadable rest files are downloaded.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein in the downloadable model file, the file names of the plurality of downloadable sequence files are ordered in accordance with distances of the blocks of data stored in the plurality of downloadable sequence files from the origin block of data in the data structure, and the file names of the plurality of downloadable rest files are ordered in accordance with frequencies in which the blocks of data stored in the plurality of downloadable rest files appear in the combined transcript.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein when the application was executed previously at least once, the application launched a plurality of processes, and

the at least one order stored by each of the plurality of transcripts comprises a separate order for each of the plurality of processes.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, further comprising:

receiving an instruction to construct the plurality of downloadable files from the application file and the plurality of transcripts; and

in response to the instruction, retrieving one or more transcripts stored on another computing device before combining the transcripts into the combined transcript.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, further comprising:

recording the construction of the plurality of downloadable files in a database, the database associating the plurality of downloadable files with the application and identifying a location whereat the plurality of downloadable files are stored.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein the data structure is a directed graph structure.