Systems and methods for multiple display support in remote access software

• US 20080068290A1
• Filed: 10/02/2006
• Published: 03/20/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GOTO Group Incorporated (LogMeIn, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc. (Cloud Software Group)
• Inventors: Green, Brian, Muklashy, Shadi, Piasecki, Derek
• Granted Patent: US 8,054,241 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/2.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• 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: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality

Abstract

A method of supporting multiple display configurations in a remote access environment, the remote access environment having a host computing device in communication with a viewer computing device comprises: receiving from a host computing device, by a viewer computing device having one or more viewer displays, a list of rectangles, each rectangle representing the boundaries of one of a plurality of host displays; presenting, by the viewer computing device to an end-user of the viewer computing device, a graphical user interface including means for selecting a configuration for displaying a window representing screen data of the plurality of host displays in the viewable area of the one or more displays of the viewer computing device; and displaying in the selected configuration, by the viewer computing device, the window representing the screen data of the one or more host displays. Corresponding systems are also described.

Claims

1. A method for remotely viewing at least part of a first plurality of displays at a computing device, the computing device having at least one viewer display, the method comprising:

(a) receiving at the computing device, information relating to at least one image presented on at least part of the first plurality of displays;

(b) presenting on at least one viewer display, a control derived from the received information;

(c) receiving a selection of a part of the control; and

(d) displaying on at least one viewer display, a portion of the at least one image presented on at least part of the first plurality of displays relating to the selected part of the control,

wherein the control comprises at least part of a scaled version of the at least one image presented on at least part of the first plurality of displays.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the received information comprises the image presented on at least part of the first plurality of displays.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the received information is compressed.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the received information comprises at least one record representing a rectangle corresponding to the boundaries of one of the first plurality of displays.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the presentation of the control is made in response to an action performed by an end user.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the action comprises a keypress.

7. The method of claim 5 wherein the action comprises a mouse click.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the presentation of the control is made in a predetermined location.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the presentation of the control is made in a location determined by an end user.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the control comprises at least one tile, with each tile relating to one of the first plurality of displays.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising updating the control in response to an update in an image presented at the first plurality of displays.

12. The method of claim 1 further comprising updating the control in real time.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein the control comprises a uniform color.

14. A computer implemented system for remote access having a host computing device with a first plurality of displays, the host computing device in communication with a viewer computing device via a network, the system comprising:

a viewer computing device comprising;

a transceiver which receives, from the host computing device, information relating to at least one image presented on at least part of the first plurality of displays;

at least one viewer display which displays a control derived from the received information and a user interface that allows a user to select part of that control; and

at least one viewer display which displays a portion of the at least one image presented on at least part of the first plurality of displays relating to the selected part of the control utilizing the received information,

wherein the control comprises at least part of a scaled version of at least one image presented on at least part of the first plurality of displays.

15. The system of claim 14 wherein the viewer computing device comprises a plurality of viewer displays, and wherein the plurality of viewer displays display, in at least two of the plurality of viewer displays, the portion of the at least one image presented on at least part of the first plurality of displays.

16. The system of claim 14 wherein the number of host displays equals the number of viewer displays.

17. The system of claim 14 wherein the viewer computing device comprises a single viewer display, and wherein the viewer display displays images from at least part of a selected one of the plurality of host displays.

18. The system of claim 14 wherein the viewer computing device comprises a single viewer display, and wherein the viewer computing device scales the screen data of each of the host displays such that the screen data for each display is displayed on the viewer display.