Patent ID: 7096253

Claim:
A system comprising: a processor; memory, coupled to the processor, with modules stored therein, the modules including: a target process associated with a streaming target program; a network file system driver for facilitating access for an agent procedure to software-on-demand file resources associated with the streaming target program, wherein the software-on-demand file resources reside on a remote software-on-demand file server; and a subset of the software-on-demand file resources associated with the streaming target program, including at least one executable file resource, wherein the processor generates the agent procedure to demand a software-on-demand file resource associated with the target program from the remote software-on-demand file server using the network file system driver, wherein the processor executes the at least one executable file resource to run the target process, and wherein the agent procedure uses data to uniquely identify the software-on-demand file resource.