Omnissa, LLC

Vmware, Inc.

Lenovo (beijing) Limited

Haiwei Zhao

Kun Shi

Weigang Huang

Feng Yan

Wu Bai

Huanhuan Zhang

Zhaohan Ren

Chen Liu

Xing Wei

Yue Sun

Junfei Wu

Xiaodong Ye

Yue Hao

Described herein are a system and method for combining folders in a host operating system lacking a facility for performing the combining. A helper virtual machine (VM) is formed and runs a guest operating system with a facility for combining folders such as a union mount facility. The host operating system also runs a host/guest file-sharing server to share folders instead of copying them. The file-sharing server allows the VM to access host folders, perform the combination using the union mount facility, and then allows the host operating system to access the results as a shared union mount folder in the host. Any changes to the shared union mount folder in the host are automatically processed by the union mount facility in the VM and then reflected to a folder in the host operating system.

Virtual computing instance based system to support union mount on a platform

The disclosure provides a method for launching a browsing session. The method generally includes upon initiation of a browser extension of a browser at a first device, establishing a communication channel between the browser extension and a uniform resource locator (URL) native application; requesting, by the browser extension via the communication channel, one or more URL redirection rules, wherein the one or more URL redirection rules are associated with one or more URLs; receiving the one or more URL redirection rules; receiving a URL; sending, from the first device to the second device, a request to launch another browser at the second device based on the received URL matching at least one URL of the one or more URLs associated with the one or more URL redirection rules; sending, from the first device to the second device, the received URL; and displaying the launched browser of the second device.

URL content redirection

An example method of uniform resource locator (URL) redirection between a client device and a remote system executing a remote desktop accessed by the client device is described. The method includes intercepting, by an extension of a first web browser, a URL selected to be opened on the first web browser, the first web browser and the extension executing on a first system in communication with a second system, the first system and the second system being the client device and the remote system respectively or vice versa; forwarding, by the extension, the URL to a native process executing on the first system; determining, by the native process, an internet protocol (IP) address of the URL; forwarding the URL and the IP address to the second system; and opening, by the second system, the URL on a second web browser executing in the second system.

Redirection between local and remote systems for web browsers

The disclosure provides a method of associating thread identifiers (IDs) to input/output (I/O) requests in a remote computing environment. The method generally includes receiving, by a mini-filter on a remote device that is remote from a client device, a request from an application on the remote device to access resources at the client device, determining, by the mini-filter, a thread identifier (ID) associated with the request, the thread ID corresponding to an application thread of the application that generated the request, determining, by the mini-filter, one or more parameters of the request, and transmitting, by the mini-filter, to a redirection server process on the remote device, a message comprising the thread ID and the one or more parameters of the request, wherein the thread ID and the one or more parameters of the request are added to a cache maintained by the redirection server process.

Input/output (I/O) performance in remote computing environments using a mini-filter driver

System and methods are provided for improved directory enumeration on shared client directories in virtual desktops. A merged I/O request containing multiple expected I/O requests for enumerating a directory can be produced on the virtual desktop. The merged I/O request can be conveyed to the client device and a merged I/O response containing multiple I/O responses to the expected I/O requests can be received from the client device. The received I/O responses can be stored in cache memory on the virtual desktop and used to respond to subsequent queries for enumerating the directory on the virtual desktop.

Merged input/output for accelerating directory listing phase in client drive redirection

A method of copying at least first and second files stored in a client computing device to a host server, includes the steps of: generating at the host server a first read I/O request for data of the first file based on responses to pre-read I/O requests for the first file, received from the client computing device; transmitting a merged I/O request that includes the first read I/O request for data of the first file and pre-read I/O requests for the second file from the host server to the client computing device; generating at the host server a second read I/O request for data of the second file based on responses to the pre-read I/O requests for the second file, received from the client computing device; and transmitting the second read I/O request for data of the second file from the host server to the client computing device.

Method to improve copy performance of client drive redirection with per-thread merged input/output

An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device may include a display device and an input device for user input. The input device may be movably coupled to the display device. The electronic device may include a processor coupled to the display device and the input device. The processor may detect a first and a second operating mode of the electronic device, and then may control the input device to operate either under the first input mode or the second input mode respectively in accordance with the detected relative arrangement. A method and programming product are also disclosed.

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