Patent ID: 9323778
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: by one or more computing devices, installing an application on at least a portion of a physical disk system associated with a first platform; virtualizing the portion of the physical disk system into a virtual disk system, comprising: receiving user input to mount the virtual disk system on a second platform, the user input comprising authentication information; determining, based at least in part on the authentication information and one or more of a network location of the user, a current time, or a number of accesses to the virtual disk system, whether to mount the virtual disk system on a second platform; in response to a positive determination, mounting the virtual disk system on the second platform; and executing the application on the second platform, wherein all operations associated with executing the application are contained within the virtual disk system mounted on the second platform, wherein executing the application on the second platform does not require any modification to the virtual disk system or to the data stored in the database of the virtual disk system.