Providing a native desktop using cloud-synchronized data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10218778-B2
Application number	US-201715470072-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 27, 2017
Priority date	Apr 9, 2013
Publication date	Feb 26, 2019
Grant date	Feb 26, 2019

Abstract

Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing a native desktop using cloud-synchronized data are presented. In some embodiments, a desktop management service provided by at least one computing device may selectively store data from a remote desktop. Subsequently, the desktop management service may synchronize the stored data with a cloud-based data storage platform. Thereafter, the desktop management service may cause a native desktop to be presented on a client device using the synchronized data. In some arrangements, the extracted, analyzed, and/or selectively stored data may include one or more application shortcuts, one or more documents, one or more registry keys, one or more personalization settings, or one or more layout settings. Additionally or alternatively, the remote desktop may be associated with a first operating system, and the native desktop may be associated with a second operating system different from the first operating system.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A virtualization server, comprising:
at least one processor; and
memory storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the virtualization server to:
provide, using a hypervisor configured to create and manage one or more virtual machines, a remote virtual desktop to a client device; and
selectively store, using a desktop management service, on a cloud-based storage platform, remote desktop data comprising one or more files maintained on the remote virtual desktop provided to the client device,

wherein the remote desktop data stored on the cloud-based storage platform is configured to be synchronized with and locally cached on the client device via the cloud-based storage platform when a connection between the client device and the cloud-based storage platform is available,
wherein at least one remote file included in the remote desktop data stored on the cloud-based storage platform is configured to be opened in a native desktop presented by the client device when a native editor for the at least one remote file is available on the native desktop presented by the client device,
wherein the desktop management service comprises a data mining agent, a synchronization agent, and a management agent, and
wherein the data mining agent is configured to extract information from one or more virtual desktops provided by the hypervisor, determine whether the information extracted from the one or more virtual desktops provided by the hypervisor should be stored for synchronization with the cloud-based storage platform, and store selected portions of the information extracted from the one or more virtual desktops provided by the hypervisor based on determining that the selected portions of the information extracted from the one or more virtual desktops provided by the hypervisor should be stored for synchronization with the cloud-based storage platform.

2. The virtualization server of claim 1 , wherein the memory stores additional computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the virtualization server to:
update, using the desktop management service, the remote virtual desktop provided to the client device based on changes made to the remote desktop data on the client device.

3. The virtualization server of claim 2 , wherein the changes made to the remote desktop data on the client device are received by the desktop management service from the cloud-based storage platform.

4. The virtualization server of claim 1 , wherein the remote desktop data stored on the cloud-based storage platform comprises one or more application shortcuts, one or more documents, one or more registry keys, one or more personalization settings, or one or more layout settings.

5. The virtualization server of claim 1 , wherein the remote virtual desktop provided to the client device is associated with a first operating system, and the native desktop presented by the client device is associated with a second operating system different from the first operating system.

6. The virtualization server of claim 1 , wherein the synchronization agent is configured to upload, to the cloud-based storage platform, the selected portions of the information stored by the data mining agent.

7. The virtualization server of claim 6 , wherein the management agent is configured to configure cause one or more native desktops to be presented on one or more client devices by configuring the one or more client devices to present the one or more native desktops using the selected portions of the information stored by the data mining agent and uploaded to the cloud-based storage platform by the synchronization agent.

8. The virtualization server of claim 1 , wherein the memory stores additional computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the virtualization server to:
provide, using the hypervisor, to the client device, a remoted application to open the at least one remote file when the native editor for the at least one remote file is not available on the native desktop presented by the client device.

9. A method, comprising:
at a virtualization server comprising at least one processor and memory:
providing, by the at least one processor, using a hypervisor configured to create and manage one or more virtual machines, a remote virtual desktop to a client device; and
selectively storing, by the at least one processor, using a desktop management service, on a cloud-based storage platform, remote desktop data comprising one or more files maintained on the remote virtual desktop provided to the client device,

wherein the remote desktop data stored on the cloud-based storage platform is configured to be synchronized with and locally cached on the client device via the cloud-based storage platform when a connection between the client device and the cloud-based storage platform is available,
wherein at least one remote file included in the remote desktop data stored on the cloud-based storage platform is configured to be opened in a native desktop presented by the client device when a native editor for the at least one remote file is available on the native desktop presented by the client device,
wherein the desktop management service comprises a data mining agent, a synchronization agent, and a management agent, and
wherein the data mining agent is configured to extract information from one or more virtual desktops provided by the hypervisor, determine whether the information extracted from the one or more virtual desktops provided by the hypervisor should be stored for synchronization with the cloud-based storage platform, and store selected portions of the information extracted from the one or more virtual desktops provided by the hypervisor based on determining that the selected portions of the information extracted from the one or more virtual desktops provided by the hypervisor should be stored for synchronization with the cloud-based storage platform.

10. The method of claim 9 , comprising:
updating, by the at least one processor, using the desktop management service, the remote virtual desktop provided to the client device based on changes made to the remote desktop data on the client device.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the changes made to the remote desktop data on the client device are received by the desktop management service from the cloud-based storage platform.

12. The method of claim 9 , wherein the remote desktop data stored on the cloud-based storage platform comprises one or more application shortcuts, one or more documents, one or more registry keys, one or more personalization settings, or one or more layout settings.

13. The method of claim 9 , wherein the remote virtual desktop provided to the client device is associated with a first operating system, and the native desktop presented by the client device is associated with a second operating system different from the first operating system.

14. The method of claim 9 , wherein the synchronization agent is configured to upload, to the cloud-based storage platform, the selected portions of the information stored by the data mining agent.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the management agent is configured to configure cause one or more native desktops to be presented on one or more client devices by configuring the one or more client devices to present the one or more native desktops using the selected portions of the information stored by the data mining agent and uploaded to the cloud-based storage platform by the synchronization agent.

Assignees

• Citrix Systems Inc

Inventors

• Wesley Ian Russell
• Cao Lin
• Momchilov Georgy
• Valicherla Chakravarthi

Classifications

• G06F2009/45595

  Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances · CPC title

• G06F9/45558

  Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects · CPC title

• H04L67/1095

  Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes · CPC title

• H04L67/1097

  for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS] · CPC title

• G09G2358/00

  Arrangements for display data security · CPC title