Managing a distributed cache for virtual machines

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8949320-B2
Application number	US-201213691211-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 30, 2012
Priority date	Nov 30, 2012
Publication date	Feb 3, 2015
Grant date	Feb 3, 2015

Abstract

Clients may display desktop environments to provide users with access to virtual machines (VMs). Graphical objects that displayed in the desktop environments are stored in caches in multiple clients. A host that hosts a VM may track or manage the graphical objects that are in the caches of the multiple clients. The host may instruct a first client to obtain a graphical object from a second client that is near the first client, instead of providing the graphical object to the first client directly.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a processing device of a first service, a first desktop image data, wherein the first desktop image data uses a first graphical object;
obtaining a first object identifier for the first graphical object;
determining whether the first object identifier is in a cache list;
 when the first object identifier is in the cache list:
identifying a first device identifier associated with the first graphical object; and
prov…

Assignees

• Red Hat Israel Ltd

Inventors

• Luxenberg Roni
• Lublin Uri

Classifications

• G06F15/167 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F9/45533 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L67/568 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L63/083

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/288

  Electricity · mapped topic