Patent ID: 8667050

Claim:
A method for displaying, in a virtualized desktop executing on a remote computing device, data associated with a client drive of a client computing device, without explicitly mapping the client drive onto the remote computing device, the method comprising: (a) establishing, by a first client agent executing on the client computing device, a user session with the remote computing device; (b) transmitting, by the first client agent, data identifying one or more characteristics of the client drive of the client computing device to a second client agent executing on the remote computing device; (c) generating, by the second client agent, a shell link using the data identifying one or more characteristics of the client drive of the client computing device received from the first client agent in the context of the user session, wherein the shell link comprises a data object that contains information used to access the client drive of the client computing device; (d) registering, by the second client agent, an identifier for the shell link in a registry provided by an operating system executing on the remote computing device; (e) intercepting, by the second client agent, an enumeration request by the operating system for display of a characteristic of the client drive; and (f) displaying, by the second client agent, the data identifying one or more characteristics of the client drive of the client computing device in the virtualized desktop executing on the remote computing device by reading the shell link from the registry.