Daniel Beveridge

An adaptive virtual desktop architecture is provided. Application install or assignment is evaluated, such as by using heuristics to identify applications that may present compatibility problems. Upon determining that a newly installed application may have compatibility problems when associated with a non-persistent virtual desktop, a promotion to a persistent virtual desktop occurs.

This patent focuses on the dynamic scheduling of hypervisor resources in response to specific events in the lifecycle of a virtual desktop session. Example include the detection of idle time, 1st tier vs 2nd Tier activities, non-company activities, screen saver activity, long idle periods devoid of user input. A guest agent communicates with a virtual appliance which coordinates real-time adjustments in the hypervisor scheduling and consumption priority of resources associated with individual… Show more

This patent focuses on the dynamic scheduling of hypervisor resources in response to specific events in the lifecycle of a virtual desktop session. Example include the detection of idle time, 1st tier vs 2nd Tier activities, non-company activities, screen saver activity, long idle periods devoid of user input. A guest agent communicates with a virtual appliance which coordinates real-time adjustments in the hypervisor scheduling and consumption priority of resources associated with individual VDI desktops. The result is a dramatically higher effective density for high business value activities --- users doing critical path activities will always pre-empt those doing less important things or who are idea. Congestion at the hypervisor is no longer handled in an agnostic manner, but rather triage happens with an understanding of which VMs need prioritization at a given moment based on actual user activity. Show less

Patent related to the use of instant cloning methods and other mechanisms for a very rapid suspend/resume of virtual machines.

Patent on the use of Instant cloning methods to dramatically improve the efficiency of vMotion of VMs over constrained network connections i.e. Long distance vMotion over WAN.

Patent covering the methods for rapid suspension of virtual machine memory state to a storage system and rapid resumption of VM state on-demand.

Patent which outlines a method for rapid application publishing sessions using VM instant cloning and associated techniques within the OS to achieve similar density as Terminal Services but with superior VM level isolation for each remote application session.

Patent describing a method for applying user interface virtualization techniques to user context menus (right-click menus) such that right-click actions appear as native UI elements on a remote tablet device which is conducting a remote VDI desktop session against a VDI desktop. This results in an improved user experience with a more 'native' feel that is much more responsive and satisfying to use.

Patent covering the specific methods used to represent roaming profiles within Windows without having to actually fully transfer the full profile. Using advanced file system hooking methods, user roaming profile files and registry elements are represented as present, but in fact are transferred on demand upon access by the user. The synchronization, file system coherence, error recovery and robustness techniques underlying VMware View's 'Profile Virtualization' feature are covered in this… Show more

Patent covering the specific methods used to represent roaming profiles within Windows without having to actually fully transfer the full profile. Using advanced file system hooking methods, user roaming profile files and registry elements are represented as present, but in fact are transferred on demand upon access by the user. The synchronization, file system coherence, error recovery and robustness techniques underlying VMware View's 'Profile Virtualization' feature are covered in this patent. Show less

This patent describes a solution enabling non-persistent virtual desktops to preserve their OS machine identity in Windows after a recompose event. Further, the solution is extended to encompass use with VMFork based 'instant cloning' such that machines can be built on the fly at the point a user logs into the VDI broker, yet retain their stable Windows name and identity across sessions. This enables compatibility between a class of software requiring stable machine names for licensing… Show more

This patent describes a solution enabling non-persistent virtual desktops to preserve their OS machine identity in Windows after a recompose event. Further, the solution is extended to encompass use with VMFork based 'instant cloning' such that machines can be built on the fly at the point a user logs into the VDI broker, yet retain their stable Windows name and identity across sessions. This enables compatibility between a class of software requiring stable machine names for licensing reasons and a stateless or 'Just-in-Time' VDI provisioning strategy at the infrastructure layer. Show less

Patent covering the specific hypervisor mechanisms for 'instant cloning' or 'Forking' of virtual machines. This method results in the nearly instant provisioning of virtual machines on VMware ESX.

Patent covering a provisioning method wherein a full VDI pool and its associated underlying software defined storage datastore are fully provisioned and optimized for deterministic performance holistically. In contrast to traditional VDI architecture which provisions these in a decoupled way, this method allow for the storage attributes to be closely paired to the specific requirements of the VDI pool. For example, stateless VDI machines can gain faster performance by having storage which… Show more

Patent covering a provisioning method wherein a full VDI pool and its associated underlying software defined storage datastore are fully provisioned and optimized for deterministic performance holistically. In contrast to traditional VDI architecture which provisions these in a decoupled way, this method allow for the storage attributes to be closely paired to the specific requirements of the VDI pool. For example, stateless VDI machines can gain faster performance by having storage which offers 'write-back' committees while 'persistent VDI' desktops may have 'write-through' configurations, allowing for more conservative data handling. Show less

Patent covering the technique for provisioning a new virtual machine instance without performing a reboot -- also known as 'hot cloning' in informal parlance. Results in the ability to 'hot clone' a Windows VDI machine in roughly 1 second - no reboot required. This feature is incorporated into VMware's Horizon View product.

Patent covering the application of user interface virtualization techniques for specific items such as file dialogs, clipboards actions, start menus, task switchers and more.

User interface virtualization describes a technique for providing a user with access to one computing device from another computing device, while translating the ergonomics of one computer's user interface style into the ergonomics of the other's.

A patent describing a design for use of rapid suspend/resume of virtual desktop or other virtual machine in the context of a DRS enabled datastore. The mechanics of managing reservation of the suspend data after a VM is powered down, while ensuring it is not evicted from a cache is described. The design ensures that the data necessary for a rapid resume remains present in an SSD cache for a common datastore even though the VM is powered off.

A patent describing a method for creation of specific application profiles on a virtual desktop used for the ergonomic optimization of access to these applications on a remote tablet device in a remote desktop session. The profile will contain the metadata needed to offer application specific optimizations on the tablet devices, offering a superior user experience which brings application navigation natively to the tablet device.

Patent describing an advanced hypervisor storage design leveraging an SSD array in tandem with a secondary HDD based array such that data is committed to the SSD array in 'write-back' mode and destined to the HDD array through the hypervisor, leveraging all hosts on the cluster for parallelism.

An architecture for retrieval of information service from a desktop from a client device to be displayed on a native viewer application in tandem with a remote desktop session.

Patent demonstrating design and methods for dynamic allocation of hypervisor resources to virtual machines based on analysis of the business value of activities transpiring in the VM. Using agents which monitor and detect application behaviors or user initiated UI sequences indicative of a known business function, the hypervisor is signaled to adjust resource shares so that effective triage of resources can be done when hypervisor experiences congestion.

Patent covering a fully virtualized nested hypervisor lab for purposes of demonstration, training, trial or similar use-cases with fully automated deployment of hypervisor based environments complete with application software.