Consumer PC in the cloud

• US 9,537,935 B2
• Filed: 06/02/2014
• Issued: 01/03/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Eric Trent Dryden
• Original Assignee: Eric Trent Dryden
• Inventors: Dryden, Eric Trent
• Primary Examiner(s): COX, NATISHA D
• Application Number:
  US14/293,888
• Publication Number:
  US 20150350306A1
• Time in Patent Office: 946 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4221 being an input/output bus, e.g. ISA bus, EISA bus, PCI bus, SCSI bus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/81 by operating on the power supply, e.g. enabling or disabling power-on, sleep or resume operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/85 interconnection devices, e.g. bus-connected or in-line devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

A client device has a power system, an operating system, a single chip containing a memory, a memory controller, a central processing unit (CPU), and a peripherals interface, wherein the peripherals interface communicates with external ports over one or more communication buses; an I/O subsystem comprising a display controller, input controllers, a touch screen which includes a soft keyboard, network circuitry, HDMI display/audio, a BIO-reader sensor, a camera, ports, a CDROM drive, an optical sensor coupled to an optical sensor controller, a SATA disk; a disk RAID controller; a Bluetooth device; a Bluetooth controller; an antenna; RF circuitry connected to the antenna; a proximity sensor, an accelerometer coupled to one of the input controllers; and audio circuitry connected to a speaker and a microphone. The client device is used to gain access to a user-adaptable, user-configurable UI-server which is provisioned across a cloud computing environment.

Claims

1. A method for providing a reduced latency connection, facilitating a remote computer resource mobility between a client device and a private data center, and for providing variable, changeable computing resources as desired by a user, the method comprising the steps of:

a. in response to a user pressing an icon on the client device, connecting the client device to a corporate data center;

b. the corporate data center authenticating the user;

c. in response to the user requesting the use of any private data center, the client device relaying a current geographic location of the client device to the corporate data center;

d. the corporate data center facilitating communication with private data centers, wherein the user uses the client device to interact with any remote computer resource located at any private data center, wherein the client device sends the user'"'"'s input to a 2D/3D server located in a first-selected remote computer resource, and wherein the client device receives a screen content from the 2D/3D server which is generated by the first-selected remote computer resource in response to the users input, after receiving an address of a private data center from the corporate data center, wherein the corporate data center picks a selected private data center based on a location-identifier; and

e. allowing the selected private data center to initialize a user-session with either (i) a remote computer resource that was last used by the user or (ii) a newly-configured remote computer resource, by communicating with the selected private data center, instead of communicating with the corporate data center;

wherein such actions reducing a delay that would otherwise be experienced by the user while using the client device, and the user gains access to the selected private data center using authentication methods of either (i) a biometric interface, (ii) a graphical user interface, (iii) a machine tag, or (iv) a secret code when displaying from the private data center on the client device, using a graphical user interface,

wherein the selected private data center is provisioned across a cloud provider, and wherein the selected private data center is associated with a cloud computing environment also accessing a user-selected and a configured computing resource,

wherein the user-selected and the configured computing resource is input via the graphical user interface by the user during initial configuration, and any re-configuration also communicating a request to a cloud provider to launch a remote computer resource in response to a user selection of an icon on the client device, also providing access for at least one user to the remote computer resource using a graphical user interface;

wherein the remote computer resource is configured per a user'"'"'s requirements with a availability of applications for computational and recreational activities;

wherein the client device, along with the remote computer resource, includes software that moves the 2D/3D graphics, data, and a voice bi-directionally to accommodate the user'"'"'s requirements;

wherein the remote computer resource provides an option for a game access; and

wherein the remote computer resource provides software that maps the client device to the remote computer resource.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the remote computer resource is provided with an operating system selected by the user from the group consisting of Microsoft OS, Apple OS, Google OS, and Linux/Unix OS.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the remote computer resource comprises:

a processing resource;

a storage resource;

a network resource;

an application store;

a games store;

a chat application; and

software to support graphical data movement.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the remote computer resource (a) performs backup and recovery, (b) saves, logs, and restarts instances, (c) creates, deletes, copies, and reverts to virtual images, and (d) interacts with gaming programs and with stores.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the remote computer resource sends pertinent questions to the user of the client device to determine the computing power needed by the user, and then the remote computer resource upgrades itself as necessary to provide the user with the computing power that the user needs.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the client device has a first and a second viewing screen, and wherein the second viewing screen is configured to either be a slave screen to the first screen, or to operate independently, at the user'"'"'s discretion, and wherein the client device is configured to also allow pairing of multiple screens to the first screen.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein a television/cable resource using a location-identifier allows the user to view a television channel near the location of the client device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of the client device relaying a current geographic location of the client device to the corporate data center uses a WI-FI or a cellular network.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein when the client device relays a current geographic location of the client device to the corporate data center, it does so by sending a location-identifier.