US 2016/0112497 A1 · ON-DEMAND DELIVERY OF APPLICATIONS TO VIRTUAL DESKTOPS

Abstract

A service provider system may include an application fulfillment platform that delivers desktop applications on demand to desktops on physical computing devices or virtual desktop instances. The applications may be selected for delivery from a catalog of applications, and may be required to be installed on the destination computing resource instance, or may be assigned to a customer's end user on whose behalf the resource instance was provisioned. A workflow for deploying a selected application may invoke services implemented on the platform. The desktop application may be delivered as a virtualized application package that is subsequently executed by a runtime engine installed on the end user's resource instance, without installing the selected application itself on the computing resource instance. A customer's IT administrators may create and populate the catalog, add customer-generated or customer-licensed applications, assign applications to users, apply constraints on application use, and monitor application usage.

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Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

a plurality of computing nodes that collectively provide virtual computing services to one or more clients of a service provider, each of the computing nodes comprising at least one processor and a memory;
and
a virtualized computing resource instance executing on one of the computing nodes;
wherein the virtualized computing resource instance implements a virtual desktop instance on behalf of a given end user that receives services from the service provider, and wherein an application delivery agent is installed on the virtual desktop instance;
wherein one or more of the plurality of computing nodes implement an application fulfillment platform;
wherein the application fulfillment platform is configured to:
receive, from the application delivery agent, a request for delivery of a desktop application;
and
in response to the request, initiate execution of a workflow that delivers a virtualized application package for the desktop application to the virtual desktop instance;
and
wherein, in response to delivery of the virtualized application package, the application delivery agent is configured to execute the virtualized application package for the desktop application without installing the desktop application on the virtualized desktop instance.

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A method, comprising:

performing, by one or more computers that collectively implement an application fulfillment platform:
receiving, from a computing resource instance of a given user, input indicating selection of one of a plurality of desktop applications for execution on behalf of the given user;
and
in response to said receiving:
determining that the given user is authorized to execute the selected desktop application;
and
in response to said determining, delivering the selected desktop application to the computing resource instance for execution on behalf of the given user;
wherein said delivering comprises delivering a virtualized application package for the selected desktop application to the computing resource instance;
and
wherein the plurality of desktop applications from which the selected desktop application was selected comprises one or more desktop applications that were obtained from each of two or more sources and that are deliverable through the application fulfillment platform.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

On-demand delivery of applications to virtual desktops

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