Graphic sharing

• US 10,110,672 B2
• Filed: 11/04/2014
• Issued: 10/23/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Inventors: Yuan, Zhijun, Yu, Yangfan
• Primary Examiner(s): Survillo, Oleg
• Application Number:
  US14/532,942
• Publication Number:
  US 20150100699A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,449 Days
• Field of Search: 709203, 709228, 709229
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/005 General purpose rendering architectures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1074 for supporting data block transmission mechanisms file transfer H04L67/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/24 Negotiation of communication capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6175 involving transmission via Internet broadcast-related systems characterised by the transmission system being the Internet H04H60/82

Abstract

A graphics provider terminal samples, through a graphical interface provided by a Canvas specification, a graphic generated by a web browser of the graphics provider terminal based on the Canvas specification to obtain graphics information according to a preset sampling rate. The graphics provider terminal packs the graphics information to obtain a message packet based on a preset graphics sharing agreement; and sends the message packet to a graphics exchange server through a persistent connection between the graphics provider terminal and the graphics exchange server. The graphics exchange server unpacks the message packet to obtain the graphics information and sends the graphics information to a graphics receiver terminal through a persistent connection between the graphics receiver terminal and the graphics exchange server.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

establishing, by a graphics exchange server, a first connection with a graphics provider terminal that achieves graphics information sharing without using a control at a browser of the graphics provider terminal;

receiving, by the graphics exchange server, from the graphics provider terminal using the first connection, a first message packet;

unpacking, by the graphics exchange server, the first message packet to obtain graphics information generated by the browser of the graphics provider terminal;

determining, by the graphics exchange server, a message communication standard supported by a browser of a graphics receiver terminal based on handshake information provided by the graphics receiver terminal;

in response to determining that the message communication standard is a browser-supported message communication standard, establishing, by the graphics exchange server, a second connection between the graphics exchange server and the graphics receiver terminal through an interface that is provided by the browser-supported message communication standard without using a control at the browser of the graphics receiver terminal;

packing, by the graphics exchange server, the graphics information into a second message packet according to the message communication standard supported by the graphics receiver terminal; and

sending, by the graphics exchange server, the second message packet to the graphics receiver terminal using the second connection.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising processing the graphics information.

3. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the processing comprises compressing the graphics information.

4. The method as recited in claim 3, wherein the processing further comprises performing grayscale of the compressed graphics information.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the graphics exchange server, a frequency refresh rate of the graphics receiver terminal; and

sending, by the graphics exchange server, the frequency refresh rate of the graphics receiver terminal to the graphics provider terminal to set a sampling rate of the graphics provider terminal at least partly based on the frequency refresh rate of the graphics receiver terminal.

6. The method as recited in claim 5, wherein the graphics information is a graphic sampled by the graphics provider terminal through a graphical interface provided by a specification according to the sampling rate of the graphics provider terminal.

7. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the handshake information includes a frequency refresh rate.

8. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising registering the handshake information at the graphics exchange server.

9. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

establishing the second connection between the graphics receiver terminal and the graphics exchange server through an interface that is provided by the message communication standard supported by a web animation standard in response to determining that the message communication standard is a communication standard supported by the web animation standard.

10. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

establishing the second connection between the graphics receiver terminal and the graphics exchange server through a FlashSocket interface in response to determining that the message communication standard is a Flash-supported communication standard.

11. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the first connection or the second connection is a persistent connection.

12. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

in response to determining that the message communication standard is the browser-supported message communication standard and the graphics receiver terminal does not support a Flash-supported communication standard,

encoding the second message packet; and

establishing the second connection between the graphics receiver terminal and the graphics exchange server through a WebSocket interface that is provided by the browser-supported message communication standard.

13. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein the encoding comprises performing a Base64 encoding.

14. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the graphics provider terminal and the graphics receiver terminal are interchangeable.

15. A system comprising:

a graphics exchange server including;

one or more processors; and

one or more memories having stored therein computer-executable instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

establishing a first connection with a graphics provider terminal that achieves graphics information sharing without using a control at a browser of the graphics provider terminal;

receiving from the graphics provider terminal, using the first connection, a first message packet;

unpacking the first message packet to obtain graphics information generated by the browser of the graphics provider terminal;

determining a message communication standard supported by a browser of a graphics receiver terminal based on handshake information provided by the graphics receiver terminal;

in response to determining that the message communication standard is a browser-supported message communication standard, establishing a second connection with the graphics receiver terminal through an interface that is provided by the browser-supported message communication standard without using a control at the browser of the graphics receiver terminal;

packing the graphics information into a second message packet according to the message communication standard supported by the graphics receiver terminal; and

sending the second message packet to the graphics receiver terminal using the second connection.

16. The system as recited in claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a frequency refresh rate of the graphics receiver terminal in the handshake information; and

sending the frequency refresh rate of the graphics receiver terminal to the graphics provider terminal to set a sampling rate of the graphics provider terminal at least partly based on the frequency refresh rate of the graphics receiver terminal.

17. The system as recited in claim 15, wherein the graphics information is a graphic sampled by the graphics provider terminal through a graphical interface provided by a Canvas specification according to a sampling rate of the graphics provider terminal.

18. The system as recited in claim 15, further comprising:

in response to determining that the message communication standard is a Flash-supported communication standard, establishing the second connection between the graphics receiver terminal and the graphics exchange server through a FlashSocket interface.

19. The system as recited in claim 15, further comprising:

in response to determining that the message communication standard is the browser-supported message communication standard and the graphics receiver terminal does not support a Flash-supported communication standard,

encoding the second message packet; and

establishing the second connection between the graphics receiver terminal and the graphics exchange server through a WebSocket interface that is provided by the browser-supported message communication standard.

20. One or more memories having stored therein computer-executable instructions that are executable by one or more processors to perform actions comprising:

establishing a first connection with a graphics provider terminal that achieves graphics information sharing without using a control at a browser of the graphics provider terminal;

receiving from the graphics provider terminal, using the first connection, a first message packet;

unpacking the first message packet to obtain graphics information generated by the browser of the graphics provider terminal;

determining a message communication standard supported by a browser of a graphics receiver terminal based on handshake information provided by the graphics receiver terminal;

in response to determining that the message communication standard is a browser-supported message communication standard, establishing a second connection with the graphics receiver terminal through an interface that is provided by the browser-supported message communication standard without using a control at the browser of the graphics receiver terminal;

packing the graphics information into a second message packet according to the message communication standard supported by the graphics receiver terminal; and

sending the second message packet to the graphics receiver terminal using the second connection.