Remote virtualized asset delivery and local provisioning

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11586672-B2
Application number	US-202016861072-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 28, 2020
Priority date	May 9, 2016
Publication date	Feb 21, 2023
Grant date	Feb 21, 2023

Abstract

Interaction output over a local computer-readable medium (CRM) generated based on user interaction with rendered content input representing a virtualized asset being is received at a virtualized asset local provisioning server. A manner to exploit the virtualized asset is determined from interaction output. The virtualized asset is exploited based on the determined manner to exploit the virtualized asset. A request for a portion of the virtualized asset generated in response to the exploiting the virtualized asset is intercepted. If it is determined that the portion of the virtualized asset is absent from the local storage, a request for the portion of the virtualized asset is sent to a virtualized asset delivery system over a non-local CRM; the portion of the virtualized asset retrieved by the virtualized asset delivery system is received over the non-local CRM; and the received portion of the virtualized asset is used in exploiting the virtualized asset.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a virtualized asset local provisioning server from a content client, interaction output over a local area network (LAN) generated based on user interaction with rendered content input representing a virtualized asset being exploited;
determining from the interaction output, at the virtualized asset local provisioning server, a first portion of the virtualized asset that is not present at the content client;
determining a first portion of said portions is absent from local storage at the virtualized asset local provisioning server;
preventing, in response to the determining the first portion of said portions is absent from the local storage at the virtualized asset local provisioning server, a first request for the first portion of said portions from reaching an operating system of the virtualized asset local provisioning server;
sending, in response to the determining the first portion of said portions is absent from the local storage at the virtualized asset local provisioning server, a second request to a remote virtualized asset delivery system to alter a predetermined serial stream of portions of the virtualized asset to prioritize sending of the first portion of the virtualized asset;
obtaining, in response to sending the second request to the remote virtualized asset delivery system to alter a predetermined serial stream of portions of the virtualized asset to prioritize sending of the first portion of the virtualized asset, the first portion of the virtualized asset from the remote virtualized asset delivery system over a wide area network (WAN);
mapping, at the remote virtualized asset delivery system, the first portion of the virtualized asset to a physical location where the first portion of the virtualized asset resides;
retrieving the first portion of the virtualized asset based on the mapping;
sending, to the virtualized asset local provisioning server over the WAN, the first portion of the virtualized asset based on the mapping;
providing, from the virtualized asset local provisioning server, the first portion of the virtualized asset to the content client;
predicting a second portion of the virtualized asset based on the first portion of the virtualized asset, wherein the predicting is based on what application is running at the virtualized asset local provisioning server at a given time;
sending the second portion of the virtualized asset for generating new interaction output for the content client.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the virtualized asset is a branching virtualized asset.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the virtualized asset includes an operating system.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second request is stored in a request history at the remote virtualized asset delivery system, the request history being used to optimize a resource map of the remote virtualized asset delivery system.

5. The method of claim 1 , comprising:
mapping, at the remote virtualized asset delivery system, a second portion of the virtualized asset associated with the second request for the first portion of the virtualized asset to a physical location where the second portion of the virtualized asset resides;
retrieving the second portion of the virtualized asset based on the mapping;
sending, to the virtualized asset local provisioning server over the WAN, the second portion of the virtualized asset based on the mapping.

6. The method of claim 1 , comprising:
determining whether the content client or a user utilizing the content client has rights to access the virtualized asset;
if it is determined the content client or the user utilizing the content client has rights to access the virtualized asset, providing content input for rendering at the content client.

7. The method of claim 1 , comprising maintaining a server instance of the virtualized asset local provisioning server for use, at least in part, in exploiting the virtualized asset.

8. The method of claim 1 , comprising:
predicting, by the remote virtualized asset delivery system, a second portion of the virtualized asset or another virtualized asset based on the first portion of the virtualized asset;
sending the second portion of the virtualized asset or the other virtualized asset to the virtualized asset local provisioning server.

9. The method of claim 1 , comprising:
predicting, by the remote virtualized asset delivery system using a server instance of the virtualized asset local provisioning server, a second portion of the virtualized asset or another virtualized asset based on the first portion of the virtualized asset;
sending the second portion of the virtualized asset or the other virtualized asset to the virtualized asset local provisioning server.

10. A system comprising:
a local area network (LAN) interface at a virtualized asset local provisioning server configured to receive, from a content client, interaction output over a LAN generated based on user interaction with rendered content input representing a virtualized asset being exploited;
a virtualized asset exploiting engine configured to:
determine from the interaction output, at the virtualized asset local provisioning server, a first portion of the virtualized asset that is not present at the content client;
determine the first portion of the virtualized asset is absent from local storage at the virtualized asset local provisioning server;

an asset portion request and retrieval engine configured to:
send, in response to the determination that the first portion of said portions is absent from the local storage at the virtualized asset local provisioning server, a second request to a remote virtualized asset delivery system to alter a predetermined serial stream of portions of the virtualized asset to prioritize sending of the first portion of the virtualized asset;
obtain, in response to sending the second request to the remote virtualized asset delivery system to alter a predetermined serial stream of portions of the virtualized asset to prioritize sending of the first portion of the virtualized asset, the first portion of the virtualized asset from the remote virtualized asset delivery system over a wide area network (WAN);

the virtualized asset local provisioning server being configured to provide-the first portion of the virtualized asset to the content client;
a memory management engine configured to prevent, in response to the determining the first portion of said portions is absent from the local storage at the virtualized asset local provisioning server, a first request for the first portion of said portions from reaching an operating system of the virtualized asset local provisioning server;
a resource map management engine at the remote virtualized asset delivery system configured to map the second request for the first portion of the virtualized asset to a physical location where the first portion of the virtualized asset resides;
a virtualized asset retrieval engine at the remote virtualized asset delivery system configured to retrieve the first portion of the virtualized asset based on the mapping;
a virtualized asset delivery engine at the remote virtualized asset delivery system configured to send, to the virtualized asset local provisioning server over the WAN, the first portion of the virtualized asset based on the mapping;
a virtualized asset portion prediction engine at the remote virtualized asset delivery system, configured to:
predict a second portion of the virtualized asset based on the first portion of the virtualized asset, wherein the predicting is based on what application is running at the virtualized asset local provisioning server at a given

Assignees

• Numecent Holdings Inc

Inventors

• Nguyen Huy
• Tran Robert
• Maxson Brian
• Hitomi Arthur S

Classifications

• G06F16/84 Primary

  Mapping; Conversion · CPC title

• G06F9/44521 Primary

  Dynamic linking or loading; Link editing at or after load time, e.g. Java class loading · CPC title

• G06F21/606

  by securing the transmission between two devices or processes · CPC title

• H04L63/10

  for controlling access to devices or network resources · CPC title

• H04L67/131

  Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality · CPC title