METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING, BY A REMOTE MACHINE, ACCESS TO GRAPHICAL DATA ASSOCIATED WITH A RESOURCE PROVIDED BY A LOCAL MACHINE

• US 20110197141A1
• Filed: 01/07/2011
• Published: 08/11/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc. (Cloud Software Group)
• Original Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc. (Cloud Software Group)
• Inventors: MAZZAFERRI, RICHARD JAMES
• Granted Patent: US 8,296,352 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/740
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/542 Intercept
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/544 Remote
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/545 Gui
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications

Abstract

A method for providing, by a remote machine, access to graphical data associated with a resource provided by a local machine includes initializing, by a remote agent on a remote machine, a proxy icon handler. The proxy icon handler receives, from an icon handler on a local machine, data associated with an icon for a resource provided by the local machine. The proxy icon handler modifies a window in a remote desktop environment displaying a plurality of icons including at least one icon associated with a resource provided by the remote machine and the icon associated with the resource provided by the local machine. The remote agent transmits, to the local machine, window attribute data associated with the modified window and graphical data representing the window displaying the plurality of icons. The local agent displays the received graphical data in a window formed according to the received window attribute data.

Claims

1. In a networked computing system, a method for providing, by a remote machine, access to graphical data associated with a resource provided by a local machine, the method comprising:

(a) initializing, by a remote agent executing on a remote machine, a proxy icon handler;

(b) receiving, by the proxy icon handler, from an icon handler executing on a local machine, data associated with an icon associated with a resource provided by the local machine;

(c) modifying, by the proxy icon handler, in communication with a shell on the remote machine, a window displaying a plurality of icons in a remote desktop environment, the plurality of icons including at least one icon associated with a resource provided by the remote machine and including the icon associated with the resource provided by the local machine;

(d) transmitting, by the remote agent, to a local agent executing on the local machine, window attribute data associated with the window displaying the plurality of icons and graphical data representing the window displaying the plurality of icons; and

(e) displaying, by the local agent executing on the local machine, the received graphical data in a window formed according to the received window attribute data.