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Peter A Morgan

John Michael Sheehan

Kristofer Hellick Reierson

Charles Kossi Kekeh

Lidiya Vikhlyayeva

Feroz Gora

Joseph W Rovine

Anthony Christopher Karloff

Harminder Singh

Damon Robert Hachmeister

Damon Robert Hackmeister

A graphical user interface system that visually represents a graph node having multiple input ports, and that automatically adjusts the number of input ports to the graph node as open input ports are connected to upstream graph node(s) and/or as used input ports are disconnected from upstream graph node(s). Upon detecting that a set of one or more input ports has just been connected to one or more upstream graph nodes, the system may automatically add one or more additional input ports to the visual representation of the graph node without explicit user instruction. Upon detecting that a set of one or more of the input ports has just been disconnected from one or more upstream graph nodes, the system may automatically remove the determined one or more input ports from the visual representation of the graph node.

Graph node with automatically adjusting input ports

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

Embodiments are directed to dynamically delivering virtual software applications and to allocating application data between local and network data stores. In one scenario, a computer system establishes a data input/output (I/O) filter configured to intercept data file requests being sent from a virtual software application to an operating system's file system. The data I/O filter intercepts a data file read request that is configured to retrieve a specified data file from the file system. The data I/O filter forwards the intercepted read request to a network-accessible data store that is configured to return the specific data file. Then, upon receiving the specified data file from the network data store, the I/O filter sends the specified data file to the virtual software application. In this manner, the specified data file is usable by the virtual application.

Autonomous network streaming

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