Selective migration of virtualized applications
US9841966B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 25, 2015 |
| Grant date | Dec 12, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 25, 2035 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/178
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
User configurations of an installed application are migrated by isolating them from a base application state of the installed application to generate a virtual application package. At runtime, a base virtual application package and a user configurations virtual application package are provisioned from a central repository and executed by the user. The resulting virtualized execution environment merges the application resources contained in the packages such that the user configurations override the base application to make available all of the user configurations. This technique may be used to preserve user configurations during migration of applications, or to maintain user-specific configurations for a particular application across different sessions of a user's virtualized desktop.
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