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Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018

Filed:

Nov. 29, 2016
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Nir Adler, Herzliya, IL;

Dima Golbert, Herzliya, IL;

Avshi Avital, Herzliya, IL;

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/445 (2018.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 8/61 (2018.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45504 (2013.01); G06F 8/61 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/4856 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01);
Abstract

A management agent operates transparently in the background on each endpoint computing device that needs to be managed. The agent sets up a sandboxed environment on the endpoint computing device on which it is operating in order to capture applications that have been installed on the endpoint device. The application capture is performed after the applications have been installed on the endpoint device and therefore does not require installing the application on any dedicated staging machine, nor any recording of the pre-installation state. The application capture process involves running the application from an isolated sandboxed environment on the computing device in order to identify all necessary components of the application by monitoring accesses by the application to components located outside of the sandbox. The identified components can then be packaged together and managed as individual application packages.


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