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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:
Feb. 02, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 04, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Yuping Wei, Beijing, CN;

Ke Xiao, Beijing, CN;

Hongsheng Li, Beijing, CN;

An Min Gong, Beijing, CN;

Wenshuo Chen, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:

VMWARE, INC, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4881 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various examples for providing multiple instances of a client application in operating systems that limit execution of the client application to a single process are disclosed. A client device can include an operating system natively configured to generate a single process for an execution of the client application on the client device. A client application can be configured to, in the single process, generate sub-processes for execution of separate instances of the client application. The client application can include at least one user interface that permits creation of, termination of, or toggling between various instances of the client application.


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