Symantec Corporation

Yury Mazin

Ryan M McCarten

Suneet Nandwani

Taiwei Yin

A streamed application includes a plurality of application blocks. A first subset of the plurality of application blocks is pre-stored in a cache on a host computer system prior to initiating execution of the streamed application. The streamed application may then be executed. One or more application blocks of the first subset of the plurality of application blocks may be retrieved from the cache during execution of the streamed application in response to one or more requests to access the one or more application blocks of the first subset. A second subset of the plurality of application blocks may be received from a server computer system during the execution of the streamed application and may be stored in the cache. The second subset may include one or more application blocks that were not stored in the cache when the streamed application was installed.

Pre-storing blocks for a streamed application in a local cache on a host computer system

A computer-implemented method for handling component-object-model communications. The method may include identifying a request to instantiate a component-object-model object through a remote-procedure-call process. The component-object-model object may be associated with an out-of-process component-object-model server registered in a first environment. The remote-procedure-call process may be running in a second environment with a different registry than the first environment. The method may also include allowing the remote-procedure-call process to access the first environment. Corresponding systems and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Methods and systems for handling component-object-model communications

A system and method for virtualizing file extensions. The system includes a system environment, one or more virtual environments, and a shell extension. The shell extension detects a request to perform an action on a file in the system environment. The file has an associated file extension. The system environment includes applications for opening files. In response to detecting the request, the shell extension determines that the action is to open the file in the system environment and the file extension is not associated with any of the applications in the system environment. The shell extension queries the virtual environments to find an association between the file extension and an application, identifies at least one of the virtual environments in which the extension is associated with an application, and opens the file in a selected virtual environment.

Method of virtualizing file extensions in a computer system by determining an association between applications in virtual environment and a file extension

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Yury Mazin