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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8171483 | Method and system for communicating between isolation environments A method and system for associating installation scopes within an isolation environment, where the method includes defining an isolation environment for encompassing an aggregation of installation scopes. Associations are created between a first application and a fi... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171479 | Method and apparatus for providing an aggregate view of enumerated system resources from various isolation layers A method for presenting an aggregate view of native resources includes the step of enumerating a plurality of system-scoped native resources provided by a system scope. A plurality of application-scoped native resources provided by an application isolation scope are... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171169 | Method and apparatus for updating a graphical display in a distributed processing environment A system and method for updating a display unit remotely located from a computing system are described. The method includes copying display information from a video buffer of a computing device executing an application to generate a display update, calculating a siz... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171127 | Systems and methods for response monitoring Systems and methods for response monitoring are described. A method of generating a measurement for use in calculating an end-user experience metric in a server-based computing environment includes, transmitting a message from a client of the server-based computing ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169436 | Methods and systems for remoting three dimensional graphics Methods and systems for providing three dimensional graphics to remote computing machines and appliances that include an agent executing on a local computing machine to intercept a plurality of graphics commands generated by a three dimensional application executing... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8161472 | Methods and apparatus for incorporating a partial page on a client The invention relates to a method and apparatus for regenerating portions of the page that have changed and transmitting only those portions to the client for display. Executing only the necessary parts of the page generation code and transmitting only changes to th... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8149431 | Systems and methods for managing printer settings in a networked computing environment Systems and methods for remotely managing printer settings that are associated with a remote printer connected to a client machine. A virtual printer driver, executing on a server, is used to generate and manage generate virtual printer queues associated with remote... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145777 | Method and system for real-time seeking during playback of remote presentation protocols A foreground protocol engine receives a request for rendering the contents of a packet in a recording of a protocol data stream, the protocol data stream comprising a plurality of packets. The foreground protocol engine identifies a state-snapshot having an associat... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8135843 | Methods and systems for providing access to an application The invention enables the publishing of a graphical user interface application on the web in a manner so that they can be discovered by manual or automatic searches. The invention includes the step of receiving a service access point (SAP) from a web service directo... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132176 | Method for accessing, by application programs, resources residing inside an application isolation scope In a method for accessing, by application programs, resources provided by an operating system, a process receives a request for a resource and an identifier associated with the resource. It is determined that the requested resource resides inside an application isol... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8132168 | Systems and methods for optimizing a process of determining a location of data identified by a virtual hard drive address A system for optimizing a process of determining a location of data identified by a virtual hard drive address includes a virtual hard drive, a hypervisor, a plurality of chained files and a table. The plurality of chained files includes a first file comprising a de... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131825 | Method and a system for responding locally to requests for file metadata associated with files stored remotely A method and system for responding locally to requests for file metadata associated with files stored remotely includes a method of responding locally to requests for file metadata without downloading the file from a remote location. A directory structure representi... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131817 | Method and system for generating a graphical display for a remote terminal session In one aspect the invention relates to a method for generating a graphical display for a remote terminal session. The method includes monitoring output produced by an application program executing on a server, identifying a bitmap representation within the output pr... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131816 | Methods and apparatus for generating graphical and media displays at a client The invention generally relates to generating a display having graphical and/or media components at a client. In one aspect, a method for generating a graphical display at a client includes transmitting output from an application program executing on a server to the... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127017 | Methods and servers for displaying and activating disconnected sessions A method for displaying and activating disconnected sessions includes the step of receiving information associated with a user. At least one disconnected session already associated with the user is identified in response to the information. A graphical representatio... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8117559 | Method and apparatus for virtualizing window information A method and apparatus for virtualizing access to windows includes a hooking mechanism, a window name virtualization engine, and an operating system interface. A request relating to a window from a process executing in the context of a user account is received, the ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117314 | Methods and systems for providing remote access to a computing environment provided by a virtual machine A method for providing remote access to a computer environment provided by a virtual machine includes the step of receiving authentication information associated with a user of a client machine. Based on the received authentication information, a computer environmen... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112789 | Systems and methods for facilitating distributed authentication A method for facilitating distributed authentication includes the step of requesting, by a user of a client machine residing in a first domain, access to a resource residing in a second domain. The client machine authenticates the user to an intermediate machine. Th... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111086 | Methods and systems for selective implementation of progressive display techniques The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for selective implementation of progressive display techniques based on a number of frames displayed in a window. A first hooking component identifies for a window displaying first application data on a local com... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8099389 | Method and system for efficiently reducing graphical display data for transmission over a low bandwidth transport protocol mechanism The present invention improves the performance of distributed systems by reducing the amount of graphical data transmitted between an application server and a thin client. The encoding technique used for graphical data is adapted in response to the repetitiveness of... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095940 | Method and system for locating and accessing resources In a method for accessing resources provided by an operating system, a request for a resource is received by an application program executing inside an environment. A first identifier associated with the resource is acquired. A registry is consulted, responsive to a... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090874 | Systems and methods for maintaining a client's network connection thru a change in network identifier The invention relates to methods and systems for reconnecting a client and providing user authentication across a reliable and persistent communication session. A first protocol that encapsulates a plurality of secondary protocols is used to communicate over a netwo... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090808 | System for and method of network booting of an operating system to a client computer using hibernation A system for and method of network booting of an operating system (O/S) on one or more client devices, such as personal computers (PC's), employing a hibernation image. Remote booting of sets of client devices is facilitated by employing virtual disk emulation and, ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090797 | Methods and systems for launching applications into existing isolation environments Methods and systems that can launch applications into existing isolation environments do so by executing a run module on a computing machine to intercept requests to execute an application. A client communicating with the computing machine generates requests to exec... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090793 | Methods and apparatus for making a hypermedium interactive A system and method of making a hypermedium page interactive. In one embodiment the system includes a hyperlink on the hypermedium page displayed on a client node; a hyperlink configuration file (corresponding to the hyperlink on the client node) located on a networ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086541 | Systems and methods for generating advertiser recommendations from users of workflow software A method for displaying targeted advertisements to users of workflow software, based on information corresponding to the workflow, the related industry, and the user of the workflow software includes: receiving, from an identified user, a request to display a step i... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082498 | Systems and methods for automatic spell checking of dynamically generated web pages Systems and methods for automatically spell-checking dynamically generated web pages include: generating, by a server responsive to a request from a client, a dynamically generated web page containing at least some text; transmitting, by the server to the client, th... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081063 | Systems and methods for Q value determination Systems and methods for determining a Q value for a subsequent inventory round can include a radio frequency identification (RFID) interrogator determining at least one of: a number of empty slots, a number of collided slots, and a number of singly occupied slots, i... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078689 | Methods and apparatus for providing access to persistent application sessions Methods and apparatus for providing remote access to two or more application sessions in which authentication information associated with a user is received, a plurality of application sessions already associated with the user are identified in response to the infor... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8069226 | System and method for data synchronization over a network using a presentation level protocol A mechanism for synchronizing data on a device communicating with a client system with data accessible from a server-hosted session is disclosed. The synchronization occurs over a network connection using a presentation-level protocol to transmit communications betw... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065423 | Method and system for assigning access control levels in providing access to networked content files A method and system for assigning access control levels when granting access to resources includes a client node, a collection agent, and a policy engine. The client node requests access to a resource. The collection agent gathers information about the client node. ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8051180 | Methods and servers for establishing a connection between a client system and a virtual machine executing in a terminal services session and hosting a requested computing environment A method for providing access to a computing environment includes the step of receiving a request from a client system for an enumeration of available computing environments. Collected data regarding available computing environments are accessed. Accessed data are t... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050972 | Systems and methods for generating advertiser recommendations from users of workflow software A method for using a workflow server to provide targeted advertisements recommended by users of workflow software includes: receiving, at a server from a user completing a workflow, information corresponding to a step in the workflow and an advertiser, the advertise... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8049636 | System, methods and apparatus for monitoring via a hand held tool The present invention relates to hand held tool monitoring apparatus (10). The hand held tool monitoring apparatus (10) comprises a mount, which in use of the hand held tool monitoring apparatus forms part of a hand held tool (22), and a monitor... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046695 | Methods and systems for incorporating at least one window from a first desktop environment having a first themed graphical display into a second desktop environment having a second themed graphical display A system for incorporating at least one window from a first desktop environment having a first themed graphical display into a second desktop environment having a second themed graphical display includes a first virtual channel, a second virtual channel, and a local... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046403 | Methods and systems for providing, by a remote machine, access to functionality associated with a resource executing on a local machine A method for providing, by a remote machine, access to functionality associated with a resource executing on a local machine includes receiving, by a remote agent executing on a remote machine, an identification of a shell extension associated with a resource provid... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8042165 | Method and system for requesting and granting membership in a server farm A server transmits to a server in a server farm a request for membership in the server farm and a first nonce. The server derives a Kerberos service ticket and a Kerberos authenticator, responsive to generating a hash of the server farm name, a passphrase, the name ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8042120 | Method and apparatus for moving processes between isolation environments A method for moving an executing process from a source isolation scope to a target isolation scope includes the step of determining that the process is in a state suitable for moving. The association of the process changes from a source isolation scope to a target i... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8032543 | Sorting apparatus and method A sorting apparatus and method for sorting units into a unit storage structure in accordance with a pre-determined order, the sorting apparatus comprising a unit search structure containing a record of units in the unit storage structure, and a unit location pointer... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031732 | Network interface and router with a mass storage interface device emulating a hard disk controller A network interface device (15a) has a mass storage device interface (3a), which emulates a hard disk controller to transfer network traffic between a node (Ia) and the network. As a result, the node (Ia), typically a computer, is present... | 10/04/2011 |
