Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Huei Chung Wang

Sriram Sampath

Amjad Hussain

Costin Hagiu

Tad Dennis Brockway

Rouslan Beletski

Vladimir Stoyanov

Ashwin Palekar

Nk Srinivas

Joy Chik

Ara Bernardi

Mahesh Sharad Lotlikar

Madan Mohan R Appiah

Olga Ivanova

Alvin K Tan

James Henry Baker, Iii

David T Dopson

Seema J Lukose

The management of bandwidth utilization in a network system that has multiple users. The system identifies the current set of users that are accessing the network by tracking which users are newly accessing the network, which users have ceased accessing the network, and which users continue to access the network over a period of time. The system then guarantees that these identified users will have a certain minimum bandwidth over the period of time. The system then enforces the guaranteed minimum bandwidth for each of the users so that they have no less than the corresponding guaranteed minimum bandwidth. Thus, even if the network bandwidth utilization would be saturated if all requests were satisfied, the system may continue operating while provided some guaranteed level of bandwidth to each user.

Minimum network bandwidth in multi-user system

Techniques are disclosed for virtualizing internet protocol (IP) addresses in terminal server sessions. A client component comprises a layer service provider (LSP) and a name service provider (NSP) that intercept a socket call to associate a port with a socket for a terminal server session. The client component queries a server component for a virtual IP address, and the server component determines whether the terminal server session can use a virtual IP address. Where the session can use a virtual IP address, the server returns a virtual IP address and the client component binds the socket call to the virtual IP address. Where the session cannot use a virtual IP address, the server returns an indication of that, and the client component acts as a proxy for that socket call and any future calls for that socket.

Internet protocol (IP) address virtualization for terminal server sessions

High Fidelity remoting can be enabled by loading a hybrid remote session in a computer system. The hybrid remote session can include components loaded in a console session and components loaded in a remote session.

Hybrid remote sessions

The management of data storage channel utilization in a computing system that has multiple users. The system receives file-level requests from requesters and then creates a history for each requester. Upon evaluating the history of each requester, the system determines whether to delay the file-level requests from entering the file system stack based on the result of the evaluation. The system delays one or more of the file-level requests if the history of the corresponding requester meets one or more criteria. If the history of the corresponding requester does not meet the criteria, the system allows the file-level requests to be passed to the file system stack without being delayed.

Data channel utilization management in multi-user system

Systems and methods to implement load balancing of connections to a server computer in a server collection are described. The server collection receives connection requests from remote clients over a network. A session broker evaluates one or more load parameters of the server computers in the server collection and, based on those load parameters, determines load associated with each server computer. The session broker redirects the connection requests to the server computer which has a lesser load.

Load balancing in server computer systems

Techniques for auto provisioning and publication of applications are described. The auto provisioning process enables automatic installation of applications having their respective file packages pre-stored in the server. Subsequently, publication of these applications is conducted automatically. By employing such an automatic process, the latency involved in provisioning and publication of remote applications is reduced, thereby making the process more efficient.

Remote auto provisioning and publication of applications

A first computing device is connected to a second computing device over a conventional communication network or other switching device or network using a predetermined communications protocol or a unified protocol. The unified protocol enables remote control of a display device by abstracting out differences in protocols, thereby eliminating the need to develop different interfaces between systems. By implementing the system as COM objects, other available protocols can be dynamically integrated. Upon connection of the first computing device to the second computing device, the screen of the second computing device is displayed on the screen of the first computing device. The first computing device is capable of watching or monitoring the second computing device, or the first computing device can control the second computing device. The first computing device can switch between the watching/monitoring mode and the controlling mode in a reversible or toggleable manner.

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