METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ACCESSING REMOTE USER FILES ASSOCIATED WITH LOCAL RESOURCES

• US 20130246473A1
• Filed: 05/01/2013
• Published: 09/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc. (Cloud Software Group)
• Original Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc. (Cloud Software Group)
• Inventors: Pedersen, Brad, Braddy, Rick G., Fleck, Christopher, Hardwood, William T.
• Granted Patent: US 9,418,081 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/784
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/63 Routing a service request depending on the request content or context

Abstract

A system for accessing, by a resource, a setting in a virtualized user profile includes an isolation environment, a resource, and a filter driver. The resource executes outside an isolation environment on a local machine and requests access to a setting in a user profile. The filter driver intercepts the request for access and identifies one of the isolation environment and a remote machine, responsive to an application of a rule to the request. The filter driver redirects the request to the one of the isolation environment and the remote machine. A method includes intercepting an instruction from a resource to modify a setting on a local machine, the resource provided by a local machine and executing outside of an isolation environment. The method includes identifying the isolation environment, responsive to an application of a rule to the instruction. The method includes redirecting the instruction to the isolation environment.

Claims

1-23. -23. (canceled)

24. A method of utilizing a virtualized user profile, the method comprising:

intercepting, by a filter driver executed by a processor of a local machine, an instruction by an application executing on the local machine, the instruction accessing a setting in a user profile on the local machine;

identifying, by the filter driver, responsive to intercepting the instruction, one of (i) a local copy of the user profile and (ii) a remote copy of the user profile located on a remote machine, responsive to an application of a rule to the intercepted instruction and a property of a network connection of the local machine to the remote machine, wherein the property is one of latency and bandwidth; and

redirecting, by the filter driver, the instruction to the identified copy of the user profile.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the local copy of the user profile is in an isolation environment provided by the local machine and the application is executing outside of the isolation environment.

26. The method of claim 24, further comprising subsequently synchronizing the local copy of the user profile and the remote copy of the user profile via second network connection of the local machine to the remote machine having high bandwidth.

27. The method of claim 24, wherein the identifying, by the filter driver, identifies the local copy of the user profile based on the network connection of the local machine to the remote machine having high latency or low bandwidth.

28. The method of claim 24, wherein the identifying, by the filter driver, identifies the local copy of the user profile based on a lack of a network connection of the local machine to the remote machine.

29. The method of claim 24, wherein the instruction accessing a setting in a user profile on the local machine is for accessing one of:

a configuration file, a registry key, and a data file.

30. The method of claim 24, wherein the remote copy of the user profile is in an isolation environment provided by the remote machine.

31. The method of claim 24, further comprising receiving, at the local machine, a request to access the local copy of the user profile from a remote machine.

32. The method of claim 24, further comprising identifying, by the filter driver, a modification to the requested setting and transmitting, to the remote machine, an identification of the modification.

33. A system for utilizing a virtualized user profile, the system comprising:

an application executed by a processor of a local machine, the application requesting access to a setting in a user profile on the local machine; and

a filter driver executed by the processor, the filter driver configured to;

intercept the request by the application;

identify, responsive to intercepting the request, one of (i) a local copy of the user profile and (ii) a remote copy of the user profile located on a remote machine, responsive to an application of a rule to the intercepted request and a property of a network connection of the local machine to the remote machine, wherein the property is one of latency and bandwidth; and

redirecting the request to the identified copy of the user profile.

34. The system of claim 33, wherein the local copy of the user profile is in an isolation environment provided by the local machine and the application is executing outside of the isolation environment.

35. The system of claim 33, the filter driver further configured to subsequently synchronizing the local copy of the user profile and the remote copy of the user profile via second network connection of the local machine to the remote machine having high bandwidth.

36. The system of claim 33, wherein the filter driver identifies the local copy of the user profile based on the network connection of the local machine to the remote machine having high latency or low bandwidth.

37. The system of claim 33, wherein the filter driver identifies the local copy of the user profile based on a lack of a network connection of the local machine to the remote machine.

38. The system of claim 33, wherein the instruction accessing a setting in a user profile on the local machine is for accessing one of:

a configuration file, a registry key, and a data file.

39. The system of claim 33, wherein the remote copy of the user profile is in an isolation environment provided by the remote machine.

40. The system of claim 33, the filter driver further configured to receive, at the local machine, a request to access the local copy of the user profile from a remote machine.

41. The system of claim 33, the filter driver further configured to identify a modification to the requested setting and transmit, to the remote machine, an identification of the modification.