Patent ID: 11928079
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A system for intelligently associating a file with an application, the system comprising:
one or more user computing devices each having an intelligent file association agent; and
an intelligent file association engine;
wherein the intelligent file association engine is configured to:
receive context for a file that can be opened in multiple different applications on a user computing device, the multiple different applications including a local application, a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) application, and a cloud application;
determining, from the context, that the file is stored in a cloud;
determining, from the context, that the cloud application is not currently available to open the file;
in response to determining that the cloud application is not currently available to open the file, causing the file to be downloaded to the user computing device;
in conjunction with downloading the file to the user computing device, determining that resources of the user computing device are insufficient;
in response to determining that resources of the user computing device are insufficient, determining that the VDI application is not available to open the file that has been downloaded; and
in response to determining that the VDI application is not available to open the file that has been downloaded, causing the file that has been downloaded to be opened in the local application.