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Servicenow, Inc.

John Michael Sheehan

Kristofer Hellick Reierson

Neil Adam Jacobson

Kunal Gandhi

Eric Jewart

Arunjeet Singh

Sameer Tejani

Sean Mckenna

Akhilesh (Akhil) Kaza

Stuart Hillary Schaefer

Charles Kossi Kekeh

Jason Ghssane Salameh

Peter A Morgan

Feroz Gora

Joseph W Rovine

Lidiya Vikhlyayeva

Eric P Traut

Sermet Iskin

Scott B Graham

Jeremy Edward Dunker

Sriram Sampath

Ara Bernardi

Adam D Stritzel

Cread Wellington Mefford

Howard S Kapustein

Jerome Thomas Holman

Chad Michael Roberts

Abolade Gbadegesin

Octavian Tony Ureche

Akhilesh Kaza

Adam M Smith

Joe Keng Yap

Peter W Wieland

Elliot H Omiya

Vishal Agarwal

Erik Fortune

Suyash Sinha

Christopher Scott Dickens

Sarjana Sheth

Jonathan David Wiswall

Daniel Oliver

Tad Dennis Brockway

Scott E Dart

David Charles LeBlanc

Benjamin Betz

Rodger William Benson

Peter J Torr

Anthony Douglas Krueger

Dattatraya B Rajpure

Thaddeus Adam Scott

Hui Li

Juan-Lee Pang

Timothy R Sullivan

Robin C Speed

Tahsin Erdogan

Carolyn L Napier

Naveed Ahmad

Jeffrey J Bromberger

Benjamin Scott McGregor

Nathaniel Stott

Kumar Rajeev

Karanbir Singh

Sarjana Sheth Mitra

John James Vintzel

Yashar Bahman

Jefferson B Criddle

Adriaan W Canter

Logananth Seetharaman

Wade H Curtiss

Stan Dale Pennington

Yifan Wang

Jeremy B Gup

Muhammad Usman Anwer

Crispin Cowan

Simon Leet

John Cole Bradley

Hemchander Venkateshwara Sannidhanam

Dylan D'Silva

Phillip E Smith

William L Cheng

Jason R Olson

Jill Cary Bender

Daniel Ryan Mitchell

Chin Hung Lam

Matthew Merry

Denise Su-Li Goh

Brianna Kelly Potvin

Fan Xiao

Letao Wang

Matthew Gonzalez

Carolyn N Lesser

Ian H Kim

Ted Kotei Annan

Rajasekhar P Sistla

Jeb Remus

Eric Jeward

Sandeep P George

Carl W Russell

Samuel Aaron Beard

John A M Hazen

Systems and methods cross device application discovery and/or control. Cross device application discovery and/or control can provide for simple detection and activation of applications on remote devices. Cross device application discovery and/or control can provide for the control of remote applications in a master and slave configuration. Responsive to an activation message, an application can execute a task in an application, the task being displayed on a target device. Responsive to an activation message, an application can execute a task in an application on a target device, a task context data for the task being streamed to the source device for presentation on a display. Cross device application discovery and/or control can be enabled on a single operating system, or across a plurality of operating systems.

Cross device application discovery and control

A method for controlling the interoperation of a plurality of software applications and resources includes intercepting communications from a first application to a second application or resource, directing the communication to a context management system, generating a candidate list of contexts for the communication, evaluating the candidate list according to at least one policy defined for these contexts to identify the resultant action and namespace for the communication, and performing the action as defined by the policies within the identified namespace. The method further includes tracking one or more versions of the second application, as well as tracking an evolution of application and/or resource names. The method further includes identifying one or more operations associated with a context on the candidate list, and executing the identified operations prior to a further communication.

System and method for controlling inter-application association through contextual policy control

Techniques for multiuser application platform are described. Generally, a multiuser application allow interaction by multiple different users with a single executing instance of the application. Implementations include a multiuser operating system and a multiuser application programming interface that enable interaction by multiple users with an executing instance of a multiuser application.

Multiuser application platform

Various systems and methods for capability access management are disclosed herein. In one example, a system includes a memory and a processor to send a signed custom capability description (SCCD) received from a first vendor to the memory for storage. The system may send an application received from a second vendor to the memory for storage. The system attempts to match the application to an authorization listing of the SCCD, where the application can be modified to allow access to a previously inaccessible custom capability in response to the application matching the authorization listing of the SCCD.

Capability access management

Techniques for creating and using a recipe to create a virtual package for a virtual application. Existing methods for creating virtual packages may require the use of an expert or may not be reliable. In some embodiments, a dehydrator is use to create a recipe. The dehydrator may take as input a reference virtual package and install media for the application and output a recipe that may be used to create a particular virtual package for a particular operating system and/or environment. In some embodiments, a rehydrator may be used to create a particular virtual package from a recipe. The rehydrator may take as input a recipe and install media for an application and output a particular virtual package for a particular operating system and/or environment.

Virtual application package reconstruction

Methods, systems, and apparatuses for publishing, acquiring, and servicing of related software packages together. Flexible yet robust software package version control through joint servicing using atomic sets, including business software applications and consumer software applications, is performed by client and developer devices in conjunction with a host server. Developers and publishers develop and provide applications and assign specific, related versions of software packages, that are jointly operable per atomic sets embodied in atomic set manifests, in software program bundles for acquisition by end users. Adherence to jointly serviced software packages using atomic sets is performed by client devices and/or servers in a manner that is transparent to the end user. The end user is enabled to acquire all or less than all software packages that make up an atomic set, yet each software package acquired adheres to the version requirements set forth by the atomic set.

Joint servicing of software packages

An application based hardware identifier is generated for an application on a device. The application based hardware identifier is generated based on both information describing the application and information describing one or more hardware components of the device. The application based hardware identifier can also optionally be based on an identifier of a user of the device. The application based hardware identifier can be provided by the application to a service provider, allowing the service provider to associate the application based hardware identifier with a particular user or user account. However, as the application based hardware identifier is based on the application information, different applications on the same device will have different application based hardware identifiers. The application based hardware identifier thus helps maintain privacy by preventing tracking of the device across different applications.

Application based hardware identifiers

A virtual application packaged for a specific executing environment may be executed on a processing device having an executing environment different from the specific executing environment. A reference, included in extracted installer metadata, to one or more key paths of a hierarchically-structured data store may be modified according to a set of rules related to the executing environment detected in the processing device. The modified extracted installer metadata may be provided to an installer for installing the virtual application. During execution of the virtual application, a request to read, write, or modify the hierarchically-structured data store may be intercepted and changed, such that a first key path included in the request may be mapped to a second key path, based on the detected executing environment. Similarly, a response to the request, which may include the second key path, may be intercepted and modified, to the first key path.

Application virtualization

An extension point virtualization system uses operating system-provided reparse points to provide minimal extension point registration. Reparse points preserve application isolation while removing the scale problem of writing custom extension point proxies for each extension point. Instead, the system can use a single file system filter that generically handles application virtualization reparse points, and store reparse point data for extension points that need redirection. Many extension points can be handled by redirecting the operating system from a typical location for an application resource to a virtualized safe location for the application resource. Thus, the system simplifies the process of handling new extension points by allowing an application virtualization system to simply register new locations that should be handled with reparse points and to then handle registered locations generically.

Extension point declarative registration for virtualization

Configuration items for a software application can be automatically and/or manually discovered, and the application can be packaged to form a virtual application package. A deployment configuration can include settings for the configuration items. The deployment configuration can be set after packaging the software application. For example, a selected configuration item in the deployment configuration may be changed in response to user input. The virtual application package can be deployed to instantiate the application one or more times, and the deployment configuration can be applied in the instantiated application.

Virtual software application deployment configurations

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