Associating multiple display units in a grouped server environment
First Claim
1. A method for associating multiple display units in a grouped server environment including a number of grouped server computer systems, the method comprising:
- identifying when a secondary Human Interface Device is connected with a first server computer system;
determining whether a primary Human Interface Device associated with said secondary Human Interface Device is displaying a first part of an associated active session;
performing a first action, if said primary Human Interface Device is displaying said first part of said associated active session; and
displaying a second part of said associated active session on said secondary Human Interface Device;
wherein said first part of said associated active session is different from said second part of said associated active session; and
wherein said first action comprises;
determining a second server computer system for providing said first associated active session;
determining whether said first and second server computer systems are the same server computer system; and
redirecting said connection of said secondary Human Interface Device to said second server computer system, if said first and second server computer systems are not the same server computer system.
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Abstract
A method for grouping Human Interface Devices (HIDs) into a multi-head display is provided. The HIDs are identified as either “primary” or “secondaries”. A computational-service policy module is consulted when a new HID connects to the network. If the HID is identified as a secondary, the module consults all servers within a group to see if the primary presently has an active session connected to any of the servers. If the primary is being controlled by the same server to which the secondary is connected, the session connection information for the primary is augmented to indicate that the secondary is attached to the same session, and this information is disseminated to the interested software entities. The associated session may then provide multi-head outout to the secondary. If the primary is being controlled by another server in the group, the secondary re-attaches to the server that is hosting the primary.
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18 Claims
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1. A method for associating multiple display units in a grouped server environment including a number of grouped server computer systems, the method comprising:
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identifying when a secondary Human Interface Device is connected with a first server computer system;
determining whether a primary Human Interface Device associated with said secondary Human Interface Device is displaying a first part of an associated active session;
performing a first action, if said primary Human Interface Device is displaying said first part of said associated active session; and
displaying a second part of said associated active session on said secondary Human Interface Device;
wherein said first part of said associated active session is different from said second part of said associated active session; and
wherein said first action comprises;
determining a second server computer system for providing said first associated active session;
determining whether said first and second server computer systems are the same server computer system; and
redirecting said connection of said secondary Human Interface Device to said second server computer system, if said first and second server computer systems are not the same server computer system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method for associating multiple display units of a display terminal group, wherein the multiple display units of the display terminal group are capable of being controlled by a number of server computer systems in a computational server group, comprising:
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identifying an event occurrence wherein a secondary display unit within the display terminal group connects to a server computer system in the computational server group, the display terminal group including one primary display unit and one or more secondary display units;
in response to identifying the event occurrence, determining whether the primary display unit in the display terminal group has an active session connected to a server computer system in the computational server group; and
if the primary display unit in the display terminal group does have an active session connected, determining if the server computer system connected to the secondary display unit is different from the server computer system connected to the primary display unit, and if the server computer systems connected to the secondary and primary display units are determined to be different, reconnecting the secondary display unit to the server computer system to which the primary display unit is connected, the reconnecting causing the secondary display unit to share the active session connected with the primary display unit.
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