The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2000
Dan Eylon, Ramat Hasharon, IL;
Amit Ramon, Zoran, IL;
Yehuda Volk, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Uri Raz, Fairlawn, NJ (US);
Shmuel Melamed, Ramat-Gan, IL;
Dan Eylon, Ramat Hasharon, IL;
Amit Ramon, Zoran, IL;
Yehuda Volk, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Uri Raz, Fairlawn, NJ (US);
Shmuel Melamed, Ramat-Gan, IL;
AppStream Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for streaming software applications to a client uses an application server having a library with the application files stored therein. A streaming manager is configured to send the application files to a client as a plurality of streamlets, each streamlet corresponding to a particular data block in a respective application file. A streaming prediction engine is provided to identify at least one streamlet which is predicted to be most appropriate to send to a given client at a particular time in accordance with a prediction model reflecting the manner in which the application files are loaded and used by the application. In the preferred implementation, the application files are preprocessed and stored as a set of compressed streamlets, each of which corresponds to a file data block having a size equal to a code page size, such as 4k, used during file reads by an operating system expected to be present on a client system. In addition, the server is configured to send a startup block to a new streaming client containing a file structure specification of the application files and a set of streamlets comprising at least those streamlets containing the portions of the application required to enable execution of the application to be initiated.