It was only a few days ago that we talked about application virtualization patents exploding on the scene. My head was spinning at the rate press releases were hitting the wire shouting "we've been granted a patent", "we're filing a lawsuit and an injunction", or even "we invented application streaming". Silly me, I thought the big news in the application virtualization space was going to be the Softricity acquisition by Microsoft... guess I was wrong. And I guess Microsoft forgot to tell Stream Theory, AppStream, and Mobile Agent Technologies, because they have each been more vocal since the Softricity announcement causing it to become slightly overshadowed.

This time, it's AppStream who proudly steps up to the microphone to announce that it too has been granted a new patent.

According to the company's press release, AppStream announced that the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office recently issued the company a new patent on portions of its innovative application streaming technology.

The patent covers a method for "network streaming of multi-application program code" which is the fourth patent granted to AppStream related to application streaming technology, in addition to several other patents pending.

"This patent further secures our leadership role in providing new ways to deliver applications on demand," said Srinivasa "Venky" Venkataraman, chief operating officer of AppStream. "Software asset management continues to challenge even the most adept IT organizations. Companies need new and better ways to know where their software assets are, and dynamically control who's using them. With AppStream application streaming our customers get centralized access control, on-demand access, and dynamic licensing and entitlement provisioning. This enables businesses to get the full value of their software investment while reducing potential liability and overhead."

Patented and patent-pending AppStream technology will be released this month in the latest beta version of AppStream Technology Windows Edition, version 5.0.

Posted by David Marshall on June 22, 2006 07:51 PM