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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 11, 2015
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventor:

Tal Zamir, Haifa, IL;

Assignee:

VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4416 (2013.01); G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 11/00 (2013.01); H04L 65/60 (2013.01); H04L 67/06 (2013.01); H04L 67/34 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system is described for replacing the desktop image on a computing device with a network-based desktop image (e.g., a backup copy of a desktop image) while allowing the user to resume working on the computing device with the new desktop with minimal downtime. The computing device is booted directly from the backed-up desktop image on the network. After boot, the system allows the user to use the computing device with the new desktop image by directing read requests for information that is only available on the network to the desktop image on the network. Write operations are performed on the local disk of the computing device. While the user is using the computing device, the desktop image is streamed in the background and stored on the local disk.


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