Citrix Assigned Patent

Citrix Systems, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL, has been assigned a patent (10,019,177) developed by Larkin, Michael, San Jose, CA, Uli, Shashikiran, Sammamish, WA, and Deforeest, William, Snohomish, WA, for a “system updates with personal virtual disks.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method and system for updating a collection of software resources in a virtual desktop infrastructure system. Virtual machines associated with sets of virtual disk elements in a hierarchy of disk layers, such as basic, department, or user virtual disks are offered updates for one or more available software resources. Updates available for deployment in the virtual desktop infrastructure system are recorded in a database by a controller server. The controller server takes an inventory of all the virtual machines associated with each disk layer in the hierarchy of disk layers on which to apply the available updates. The controller server applies the one or more updates to the identified virtual machines, and stores the update application results in a database. The controller server may apply the one or more updates to virtual machines associated with descendant disk layers in the hierarchy of disk layers in view of previous applications of the updates.”

The patent application was filed on February 19, 2015 (14/626,516).