Method for cloud based mobile application virtualization

A method of communicating with a mobile device, the method comprising:

• executing a single operating system instantiation resident on a server computer system, said single operating system comprising a session management module and a plurality of service modules;
• creating a plurality of user sessions, each user session of the plurality of user sessions comprising a respective plurality of applications and a unique respective session ID, and allocating server resources to said each user session, wherein said each user session calls a service module of said plurality of service modules;
• creating a plurality of sets of virtual devices, wherein each respective set of virtual devices of the plurality of sets of virtual devices is mapped by the session management module to a respective user session of the plurality of user sessions by matching a session ID of the respective set of virtual devices and the respective session ID for said each user session, and wherein there is a one-to-one mapping between the user sessions and the sets of virtual devices to form unique pairs of the user sessions and the sets of virtual devices;
• executing an application of a plurality of applications within a first user session of the plurality of user sessions;
• receiving a request from a network via a communication channel, the request comprising an application programming interface (API) call to a first service module of the plurality of service modules, the first service module associated with the application;
• determining a first user session associated with the request, the first user session comprising a unique first session ID, wherein the determining of the first user session is based on a mapping of the first user session to the communication channel;
• the single operating system mapping the API call to a first virtual device set of the plurality of sets of virtual device sets having a session ID that matches a session ID of the first user session, for fulfillment of the API call by the first service module;
• determining a virtual device of the first virtual device set, the virtual device associated with the first service module;
• sending the request to the virtual device of the first virtual device set;
• sending the request from the virtual device to the single operating system;
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• sending the request from the single operating system to the application executing within the first user session.

A computer system comprising a processor and memory, the computer system functional to execute a method of communicating with a mobile device, the method comprising:

• executing a single operating system instantiation resident on a server computer system, said single operating system comprising a session management module and a plurality of service modules;
• creating a plurality of user sessions, each user session of the plurality of user sessions comprising a respective plurality of applications and a unique respective session ID, and allocating server resources to said each user session, wherein said each user session calls a service module of said plurality of service modules;
• creating a plurality of sets of virtual devices, wherein each respective set of virtual devices of the plurality of sets of virtual devices is mapped by the session management module to a respective user session of the plurality of user sessions by matching a session ID of the respective set of virtual devices and the respective session ID for said each user session, and wherein there is a one-to-one mapping between the user sessions and the sets of virtual devices to form unique pairs of the user sessions and the sets of virtual devices;
• executing an application of a plurality of applications within a first user session of the plurality of user sessions;
• receiving a request from a network via a communication channel, the request comprising an application programming interface (API) call to a first service module of the plurality of service modules, the first service module associated with the application;
• determining a first user session associated with the request, the first user session comprising a unique first session ID, wherein the determining of the first user session is based on a mapping between the user session and the communication channel;
• modifying, with the single operating system, the API call to include the first session ID of the first user session to create a modified API call comprising the first session ID;
• and
• forwarding the modified API call to the first service module;
• the single operating system mapping the API call to a first virtual device set of the plurality of sets of virtual device sets having a session ID that matches a session ID of the first user session, for fulfillment of the API call by the first service module;
• determining a virtual device of the first virtual device set, the virtual device associated with the first service module;
• sending the request to the virtual device of the first virtual device set;
• sending the request from the virtual device to the single operating system;
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• sending the request from the server operating system to an application executing within the first user session.