Automatically determining which remote applications a user or group is entitled to access based on entitlement specifications and providing remote application access to the remote applications

摘要

Application Workspace System “AWS,” enables users to access remote server-based applications (e.g., thin client applications, terminal server applications, applications on hosted operating systems, etc.) using the same interface that they use to access local applications, without needing to know where the application is being accessed. The AWS automatically determines which applications the user is entitled to use, and then figures out automatically, based upon a variety of parameters, which applications are to be made available to the user (resolved to version, particular package etc.), and whether they are to be installed locally, or accessed remotely.

主权项

1. A method executed on a computing device for dynamically determining and providing access to a plurality of remote applications that are remote from the computing device, comprising:
under control of the computing device,
receiving over a communications medium an identification of a user and/or a group to which the user belongs;automatically causing the determining, based upon a set of entitlement specifications, a plurality of remote applications that may be made accessible to the identified user and/or the group to which the user belongs;causing a set of indicators associated with the automatically determined plurality of remote applications to be displayed directly on a desktop user interface of an operating system executing on a client computing system;receiving an indication of a selection of at least one of the presented set of indicators; andautomatically causing a user interface of the at least one of the determined remote applications associated with the selected indicator to be presented, at the client computing system, over the communications medium.