Micro-staging device and method for micro-staging

A method comprising:

• receiving at a micro-staging device in a mesh WLAN network and operatively coupled to a wireless access point in a physical wireless traffic area an indication of a presence of a user information handling system detected in the physical wireless traffic area, wherein the micro-staging device serves the physical wireless traffic area which includes one or more wireless access points and the micro-staging device forming a portion of the mesh WLAN network associated with the micro-staging device and wireless range associated with that one or more wireless access points and the micro-staging device in the portion of the mesh WLAN network associated with the micro-staging device;
• sending a command to a virtual machine pre-fetch application to provide pre-fetched workflow data according to a contextual policy at a remote data center via a backhaul network connection with the wireless access point;
• allocating a portion of storage at the micro-staging device for storing pre-fetched workflow data associated with the user information handling system;
• receiving pre-fetched workflow data from the remote data center;
• detecting a data request from the user information handling system;
• and
• transmitting responsive pre-fetched workflow data from the micro-staging device to the user information handling system to reduce the burden of communications on the user information handling system to retrieve the pre-fetched workflow data from within the mesh WLAN network;
• wherein the contextual policy determines workflow data to be pre-fetched by the virtual machine pre-fetch application and includes a user-defined instruction reflecting a policy to retrieve workflow data associated with an identified application.

A computer-implemented method for pre-fetching data for delivery to a micro-staging device, the method comprising:

• receiving a contextual policy at a remote data center via a backhaul connection to a wireless access point in a mesh WLAN network to determine pre-fetching of workflow data stored at the remote data center;
• receiving a pre-fetch request identifying a user information handling system from the micro-staging device in the mesh WLAN network that is operatively coupled to the wireless access point in a physical wireless traffic area, wherein the micro-staging device serves the physical wireless traffic area which includes one or more wireless access points and the micro-staging device forming a portion of the mesh WLAN network associated with the micro-staging device and wireless range associated with the one or more wireless access points and the micro-staging device in the portion of the mesh WLAN network associated with the micro-staging device;
• associating the contextual policy with the user information handling system to be serviced by the pre-fetch request;
• and
• transmitting workflow data in response to the pre-fetch request according to the contextual policy to the micro-staging device to reduce the burden of communications on the user information handling system to retrieve the pre-fetched workflow data from within the mesh WLAN network;
• wherein the contextual policy determines the workflow data to be pre-fetched according to:
• identification of a project associated with the pre-fetch request;
• and
• identification of the workflow data associated with the project.