Seamless Window Implementation for Windows Presentation Foundation based Applications

• US 20080250424A1
• Filed: 04/04/2007
• Published: 10/09/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Brugiolo, Ivan, Abdo, Nadim, Ungureanu, Dorin Oreste, Blanco, Leonardo
• Application Number:
  US11/696,577
• Publication Number:
  US 20080250424A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/315
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/545 Gui
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

Described are systems and methods for implementing seamless window support for applications, such as applications based on Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF). Seamless support for WPF applications can be implemented by remoting information associated with structural representation of the applications from a remote server to a remote client. The structural representation may be replicated at the client in accordance with the structural information. The replicated structural representation is utilized to render visual content associated with the application by local rendering mechanisms at the client.

Claims

1. A server computing device comprising:

a memory;

one or more processors operatively coupled to the memory;

a redirection agent in the memory, wherein the redirection agent collects and transfers structural information from the server computing device to a client computing device.

2. The server computing device of claim 1, wherein the redirection agent abstracts node data from a visual tree associated with an application, in a form of the structural information.

3. The server computing device of claim 2, wherein the visual tree includes information as to a render target and attributes of the render target.

4. The server computing device of claim 2, wherein the redirection agent instruments transmission of node data and structural information data from the server computing device to the client computing device.

5. The server computing device of claim 4, wherein the node data and render target data are transmitted as Media Infrastructure Layer (MIL) commands.

6. The server computing device of claim 1 further comprising a remoting module that initiates a remote session on the server computing device based on a request by a client computing device to access an application hosted on the server computing device, wherein the structural information is based on the application.

7. The server computing device of claim 1 further comprising a visual tree generator that creates a visual tree representative of the structural representation.

8. A client computing device comprising:

a memory;

one or more processors operatively coupled to the memory; and

a render target agent in the memory, wherein the render target agent utilizes render target information and structural information received from a server computing device to define a render target on the client computing device.

9. The client computing device of claim 8, wherein the render target information and node data are received by the visual tree generator as Media Infrastructure Layer (MIL) commands.

10. The client computing device of claim 8, further comprising a seamless window manager agent that creates a window, and the render target agent associates the render target with the window.

11. The client computing device of claim 8 further comprising a visual tree generator that creates a visual tree based on nodes associated with the structural representation.

12. The client computing device of claim 8 further comprising a display execution module that displays visual contents by traversing through nodes of a visual tree associated with the render target.

13. The client computing device of claim 8 further comprising a seamless window module that performs translation between a remote proxy window at the server computing device and a local window at the client computing device.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the method is performed at a server computing device, and the render target is created at a remote client computing device.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the generating is performed by a visual tree generator, and the structural representation is a visual tree associated with one or more applications.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the abstracting is performed by a redirection agent that abstracts structural information data from node data of visual tree associated with an application.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the render target is created with visual contents associated with remote applications.

18. The method of claim 13 further comprising creating a window at a client computing device, and associating the render target information with the window.

19. The method of claim 13, regenerating at a client computing device, the structural representation.

20. The method of claim 13, displaying at a client computing device visual contents onto the render target associated with the structural representation.

13-1. A method of comprising:

generating structural information associated with an application;

generating structural representation associated with structural information; and

transmitting the structural information and structural representation along with render target information to create a render target.