Systems and Methods for Managing Multimedia Operations in Remote Sessions

• US 20130275495A1
• Filed: 04/30/2013
• Published: 10/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Mahajan, Rajneesh, Stoyanov, Vladimir K.
• Application Number:
  US13/874,126
• Publication Number:
  US 20130275495A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/544 Remote
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/545 Gui
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/541 via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/363 Graphics controllers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4143 embedded in a Personal Computer [PC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/173 with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal

Abstract

Techniques relating to managing multimedia transmissions in terminal services scenarios are described. In an example, a method sends a user-interface component from a server to a remote client. The exemplary method further streams a media component for presentation on the remote client in combination with the user-interface component and wherein the media presentation is tracked but not displayed by the server.

Claims

1-19. -19. (canceled)

20. A method of providing a collaboration session between a computing device and a client, comprising:

receiving, at a computing device, server-side media-playback-commands of a server-side media platform specific to the computing device, wherein the server-side media-playback-commands are from a client having a client-side media platform specific to the client;

translating the server-side media-playback-commands into platform generic media-playback-commands; and

transmitting the platform generic media-playback-commands to the client, wherein the client translates the platform generic media-playback-commands into client-side media-playback-commands of the client-side media platform specific to the client.

21. A method as recited in claim 20, further comprising:

presenting a user-interface at the client, in a media presentation window, and tracking changes to the media presentation window.

22. A method as recited in claim 21, wherein said tracking comprises assigning a unique identifier to the media presentation window, the method further comprising:

instantiating a media application as the media presentation window; and

relaying, to the client, changes to the media presentation window to allow the media presentation window to be oriented relative to the user-interface.

23. A method as recited in claim 20, further comprising:

determining a format of media data utilized by the client-side media platform specific to the client; and

evaluating a capacity of the client to decode and render the media data in the format.

24. A method as recited in claim 23, wherein the format of the media data is a first media data format, and further comprising:

responsive to the client lacking the capacity to decode and render the media data in the first media data format, decoding the media data and re-encoding the media data in a second media data format which the client is configured to handle, wherein the first and the second media data formats are different.

25. A method as recited in claim 20, further comprising:

establishing a virtual channel connection with the client,

negotiating formats which are supported by both the client and a source of media communicated to the client; and

,

setting up a distributed topology with the client.

26. A method as recited in claim 25, wherein the setting-up a distributed topology comprises inserting a network transmitter at the source and a network receiver at the client.

27. A server comprising:

a user-interface-component that includes graphics and images that comprise a user-interface, the user-interface-component in communication with a client; and

a media component that provides media presentation data to be played, at the client, through the user-interface-component, the media component configured to translate first platform specific media-playback-commands of a first media platform supported by the server to platform generic media-playback-commands as a result of the client being unable to process the first platform specific media-playback-commands for the first media platform, wherein the first platform specific media-playback-commands of the first media platform are received from the client, and wherein the client translates the platform generic media-playback-commands to second platform specific media-playback-commands for a second media platform.

28. The server as recited in claim 27, wherein the user-interface-component comprises a media application window.

29. The server as recited in claim 28, wherein the media component is configured to be presented in a media presentation target window within the media application window.

30. The server as recited in claim 29, wherein the media presentation data is tracked by tracking the media presentation target window relative to the media application window.

31. The server as recited in claim 30, wherein the tracking comprises relaying a relative position of the media presentation target window relative to the media application window to a remote terminal session client.

32. The server as recited in claim 30, wherein the tracking comprises inserting a placeholder on a server desktop which represents the media presentation target window and tracking any changes affecting the placeholder.

33. The server as recited in claim 27, wherein the media component is configured to determine what media formats are supported by a remote terminal session client.

34. The server as recited in claim 27, wherein the media component is configured to establish a distributed topology with the remote terminal session client.

35. The server as recited in claim 27, wherein the media component is configured to send and stream the media presentation data in a terminal services session.

36. A method of providing a collaboration session between a computing device and a client, comprising:

providing, by a client having a client-side media platform specific to the client, server-side media-playback-commands of a server-side media platform specific to a server;

receiving, at the client, platform generic media-playback-commands, wherein the platform generic media-playback-commands correspond to a translation of the server-side media-playback commands; and

translating the platform generic media-playback-commands into client-side media-playback-commands of the client-side media platform specific to the client.

37. A method as recited in claim 36, further comprising:

presenting a user-interface at the client, in a media presentation window, and tracking changes to the media presentation window.

38. A method as recited in claim 37, wherein a media application is instantiated as the media presentation window, and wherein said tracking comprises assigning a unique identifier to the media presentation window, and further comprising:

maintaining a relative orientation of the media presentation window with respect to the user-interface despite changes to the media presentation window.

39. A method as recited in claim 36, further comprising:

establishing a virtual channel connection with the server, and

negotiating formats which are supported by both the client and a source of media communicated to the client.