Rto Software, Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Fslogix, Inc.

Rto Sortware, Inc

Kevin John Goodman

Randall Richards Cook

Jeremy K Hurren

Brian Mann

Jeremy Hurren

Technologies are disclosed for redirecting input/output ('I/O') requests to virtual hard disks ('VHDs') to improve network performance and data redundancy. More particularly, files can be encapsulated in remote VHDs and accessed in such a way that the files appear to a local operating system and any local applications to be residing locally. Furthermore, I/O requests redirected to files encapsulated in VHDs may also be redirected to one or more additional VHDs for data redundancy. The redirected I/O requests may be transmitted simultaneously but separately to the additional VHDs in a split stream.

Redirection of I/O requests from local to remote storage locations to improve network performance and data redundancy

The present systems and methods generally relate to the elimination or reduction of network traffic required to support operations on a file of any size stored remotely on a file server or network share. More particularly, the present systems and methods relate to encapsulation of a remote file in such a way that the file appears to the local operating system and any local applications to be residing locally, thus overcoming some of the performance issues associated with multiple users accessing a single network share (e.g., CIFS share) and/or a single user remotely accessing a large file.

Systems and methods for accessing remote files

Disclosed is a system for configuring a terminal by intercepting requests, such as Input/Output (IO) requests or registry requests, evaluating rules based on the intercepted requests during runtime, and performing actions based on the rule evaluations, such as passing the request through, redirecting the request, modifying the request, hiding resources, or performing other actions. The system can be implemented in one or more of the terminal's file system filter drivers and registry filter drivers.

Managing configurations of computing terminals

Processes are monitored as components are loaded into memory. Relocation of a component to an alternate base address instead of its preferred base address, causes an alternate component to be created corresponding to the relocated component. The alternate component is a copy of the relocated component, but the preferred base address of the alternate component is reset to be the alternate base address of the relocated component. Additional alternate components may be created for each relocated component, with each additional alternate component being optimized in a different manner. Alternate components may be implemented as alternate data stream of the corresponding relocated components. In response to subsequent requests to load a selected component into memory, it is determined whether the selected component has at least one corresponding alternate component. If so, one of the corresponding alternate components is loaded into memory instead of the selected component.

System and methods for avoiding base address collisions

Systems and methods for avoiding base address collisions

Systems and methods for avoiding base address collisions using alternate components

Processes are monitored to determine if all of their components are loaded from persistent storage into memory at their preferred base addresses. Each of the components is examined to determine if that component's in-memory base address matches the preferred base address of its on-disk representation. If a base address collision is detected, the on-disk representation of the preferred base address is updated to reflect the new in-memory base address.

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Alpharetta, GA, United States of America

Kevin John Goodman