Cloud Virtual Machine for Cross-Device OS Synchronization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems face challenges in seamlessly synchronizing and transitioning between different operating systems on various devices, leading to interruptions and difficulties in accessing cloud-based services across devices with different OS configurations.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a cloud-based solution that creates a virtual phone service, allowing remote devices to access cloud-based services by establishing communication with a virtual machine, which can execute applications on multiple operating systems and replicate data, enabling seamless access and synchronization across devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a device is tied to a single local operating system, then the operating system can be efficiently managed locally, but synchronization across devices with different operating systems becomes difficult or impractical
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud-based intermediary service that mediates between devices with different operating systems. The cloud service receives data from a first device, stores it in a cloud database, and provides it to a second device, enabling synchronization without direct device-to-device communication. This resolves the contradiction by providing a universal communication medium that works across different OS platforms.
Solution Approach 2:
The cloud-based service acts as a universal platform that can serve multiple devices with different operating systems simultaneously. The system provides data storage, synchronization, and access functionalities that are platform-independent, allowing the same service to work across iOS, Android, Windows, and other devices without requiring device-specific implementations.
2Speed
If operating system data is stored locally on a device, then access speed is fast, but moving to a different device or hardware configuration causes service interruption and requires reconfiguration
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a cloud-based copying mechanism where device data is replicated and stored in a cloud database. When a user switches devices, the data is automatically copied from the cloud to the new device, eliminating the need for manual reconfiguration. This maintains service continuity while enabling fast access through local caching on each device.
3Adaptability or versatility
If cloud-based services are implemented, then cross-device synchronization is enabled, but system complexity increases due to network communication and cloud infrastructure requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex synchronization and data management functionality from individual devices and places it in a centralized cloud service. This removes the burden of implementing complex peer-to-peer synchronization protocols on each device, reducing device-side complexity while maintaining cross-device synchronization capabilities through the centralized cloud infrastructure.
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AI summary
The disclosure relates to technology for establishing communication between a remote device and a virtual machine on a computing node of the cloud-based services via the distributed network. The cloud-based services include multiple operating systems and one or more applications. In response to receiving an instruction from the remote device the virtual machine is accessed, where the virtual machine is associated with at least one of a user of the remote device and the remote device. When directed by an instruction from the remote device, the virtual machine identifies one of the operating systems in which to execute the one or more applications and transmits results, based on execution of the one or more applications by the virtual machine, to the remote device via the distributed network.