System, method and computer program product for connecting roaming mobile devices to a virtual device platform

A computer program product for enabling efficient roaming of mobile devices that interact with corresponding virtual devices over a network, the computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions translatable by at least one processor to perform:

• at a master control facility, receiving a communication from a mobile device that identifies a user of the mobile device, a location of the mobile device, and a type of the mobile device;
• determining a performance measure for each point-of-presence (PoP) location of multiple PoP locations connected to the master control facility over the network, each PoP location of the multiple PoP locations locally stores a common set of virtual device master images, wherein each of the virtual device master images includes an operating system for a corresponding virtual device;
• identifying a preferred PoP location of the PoP locations that has a preferred performance measure in relation to other PoP locations of the PoP locations;
• selecting a virtual device master image that matches the type of the mobile device from the common set of virtual device master images locally stored on the preferred PoP location;
• instantiating a virtual device on the preferred PoP location using the selected virtual device master image of the virtual device master images;
• and
• executing the instantiated virtual device on the preferred PoP location using user data associated with the identified user of the mobile device, the user data persistently stored at a home PoP location.

A system for enabling efficient roaming of mobile devices that interact with corresponding virtual devices over a network, the system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions translatable by at least one processor to perform:
• at a master control facility, receiving a communication from a mobile device that identifies a user of the mobile device, a location of the mobile device, and a type of the mobile device;
• determining a performance measure for each point-of-presence (PoP) location of multiple PoP locations connected to the master control facility over the network, each PoP location of the multiple PoP locations locally stores a common set of virtual device master images, wherein each of the virtual device master images includes an operating system for a corresponding virtual device;
• identifying a preferred PoP location of the PoP locations that has a preferred performance measure in relation to other PoP locations of the PoP locations;
• selecting a virtual device master image that matches the type of the mobile device from the common set of virtual device master images locally stored on the preferred PoP location;
• instantiating a virtual device on the preferred PoP location using the selected virtual device master image of the virtual device master images;
• and
• executing the instantiated virtual device on the preferred PoP location using user data associated with the identified user of the mobile device, the user data persistently stored at a home PoP location.