Device and system for cloud based mobile application virtualization

A server based architecture for mobile application virtualization, said architecture comprising:

• 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;
• a plurality of user sessions, each user session of said plurality of user sessions comprising a respective plurality of applications and a unique respective session ID, wherein said each user session calls a service module of said plurality of service modules of said single operating system;
• a plurality of virtual device sets, wherein each respective virtual device set of said plurality of virtual device sets is mapped by said session management module to a respective user session of said plurality of users sessions by matching a session ID of said respective virtual device set and said respective session ID for said each user session, and wherein there is a one-to-one mapping between said user sessions and said virtual device sets to form unique pairs of said user sessions and said virtual device sets;
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• an operating system service associated with said single operating system;
• wherein, upon receiving a request from a network, said request from an application of a first user session of said plurality of user sessions and to a first service module of said plurality of service modules, said operating system service sends said request to a virtual device of a first virtual device set of said plurality of virtual device sets having a session ID that matches a session ID of said first user session associated with said request.

A system comprising:

• a session management module configured to create a plurality of user sessions for supporting a plurality of remote mobile devices, wherein each user session of said plurality of user sessions comprises a respective plurality of applications and a unique respective session ID, and wherein said session management module is further configured to allocate server resources to said each user session;
• a virtual device module configured to create a plurality of virtual device sets, wherein each respective virtual device set of said plurality of virtual device sets is mapped to a respective user session of said plurality of user sessions by said session management module matching a session ID of said respective virtual device set and said respective session ID for said each user session, and wherein there is a one-to-one mapping between said user sessions and said virtual device sets to form unique pairs of said user sessions and said virtual device sets;
• a launcher module configured to launch an application of said plurality of applications, wherein said application executes within a user session of said plurality of user sessions;
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• a service module configured to receive a request from said application, wherein said service module is further configured to send said request to a virtual device of said plurality of virtual device sets that has a session ID that matches a session ID of said user session, wherein a single operating system instantiation comprises said service module and said session management module, and wherein said service module is configured to route requests between said plurality of applications and said plurality of virtual device sets based on matching session IDs.