Preserving user profiles across remote desktop sessions
US11960501B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 21, 2016 |
| Grant date | Apr 16, 2024 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 21, 2036 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/2358
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
User profiles of remote desktops are managed in a crash-consistent manner. When a user logs into a remote desktop, metadata of the user profile is loaded from persistent storage while registry settings and files of the user profile are loaded asynchronously with respect to the login. During the remote desktop session, snapshots of the remote desktop image in persistent storage are generated periodically, and a change log that indicates changes to the user profile is created therefrom. The user profile stored in persistent storage is updated lazily using the change log at opportunistic times after snapshot generation. When the user logs out of the remote desktop, the user profile stored in the persistent storage is updated with any additional changes to the user profile by extracting the changes from the copy-on-write cache associated with the most recent snapshot.
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