METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING, BY A REMOTE MACHINE, ACCESS TO A DESK BAND ASSOCIATED WITH A RESOURCE EXECUTING ON A LOCAL MACHINE

• US 20130283181A1
• Filed: 05/14/2013
• Published: 10/24/2013
• 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 9,032,026 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 a desk band associated with a resource on a local machine includes receiving, by a first agent on the remote machine, an identification of a desk band associated with a resource on a local machine. The first agent, in communication with a shell on the remote machine, maintains a taskbar window in a remote desktop environment. The taskbar window includes at least one window associated with a resource provided by the remote machine and a window region representing the desk band by using graphical data stored on the remote machine. The first agent transmits, to a second agent on the local machine, window attribute data and output data associated with the taskbar window in the remote desktop environment. The second agent displays at least a portion of the received output data in a local window on a local desktop environment.

Claims

1-43. -43. (canceled)

44. In a networked computing system, a method for providing, by a remote machine, access to a desk band associated with a resource executing on a local machine, the method comprising:

(a) instantiating, by a proxy container object of the local machine, a desk band object associated with a resource provided by the local machine;

(b) receiving, by a remote agent executing on a remote machine, an identification of the desk band object associated with the resource provided by the local machine;

(c) receiving, by the proxy container object, from the remote machine, an identification of a window region associated with the identified desk band object, the identified window region comprising a desk band site;

(d) translating, by the proxy container object, the identified window region into an identification of a window region on a display on the local machine; and

(e) directing, by the desk band object, a display of output data in the identified window region in a display on the local machine of the desktop environment maintained on the remote machine.

45. The method of claim 44, comprising:

receiving, by the remote agent executing on the remote machine from the proxy container object, the identification of the desk band object associated with the resource provided by the local machine.

46. The method of claim 44, comprising:

maintaining, by the remote agent, a window region in a taskbar on a desktop environment maintained on the remote machine, the window region representing the identified desk band object.

47. The method of claim 46, comprising:

maintaining, by the remote agent in communication with a second shell on the remote machine, a window region in a taskbar on a desktop environment maintained on the remote machine, the window region representing the identified desk band object.

48. The method of claim 44, comprising:

directing, by the desk band object in communication with a first shell on the local machine, a display of output data in the identified window region in a display on the local machine of the desktop environment maintained on the remote machine.

49. The method of claim 44, comprising:

detecting, by the local agent executing on the local machine, a request, by a first shell on the local machine, for creation of the desk band object associated with the resource provided by the local machine.

50. The method of claim 49, comprising:

detecting, by the local agent in communication with a registry on the local machine, a request, by a first shell on the local machine, for creation of a desk band object associated with a resource provided by the local machine.

54. In a networked computing system, a system for providing, by a remote machine, access to a desk band associated with a resource executing on a local machine, the system comprising:

a proxy container object of the local machine instantiating a desk band object associated with a resource provided by the local machine;

a remote agent, executing on a remote machine, receiving an identification of the desk band object associated with the resource provided by the local machine;

the desk band object directing a display of output data in the identified window region in a display on the local machine of the desktop environment maintained on the remote machine, wherein the proxy container object further comprises a translation component translating an identification of a window region received from the remote agent into an identification of a window region on a display on the local machine, the identified window region comprising a desk band site.

55. The system of claim 54, wherein the proxy container object further comprises a Component Object Model (COM) object.

56. The system of claim 54, wherein the remote agent receives, from the proxy container object, the identification of the desk band object associated with the resource provided by the local machine.

57. The system of claim 54, wherein the remote agent maintains a window region in a taskbar on a desktop environment maintained on the remote machine, the window region representing the identified desk band object.

58. The system of claim 57, wherein the remote agent is in communication with a second shell on the remote machine.

59. The system of claim 54, wherein the desk band object is in communication with a first shell on the local machine.

60. The system of claim 54, wherein the local agent detects a request, by a first shell on the local machine, for creation of the desk band object associated with the resource provided by the local machine.

61. The system of claim 60, wherein the local agent is in communication with a registry on the local machine.

62. The system of claim 60, wherein the local agent instantiates the proxy container object, responsive to the detected the request.

63. The system of claim 54, wherein the remote instantiates a proxy handler associated with the identified desk band object.

64. The system of claim 63, wherein the proxy container object receives, from the proxy handler, the identification of the window region associated with the identified desk band object.