Enabling a graphical window modification command to be applied to a remotely generated graphical window

• US 7,533,189 B2
• Filed: 06/21/2005
• Issued: 05/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Mahajan, Rajneesh, Leichtling, Ivan J
• Primary Examiner(s): DUONG, OANH L
• Application Number:
  US11/158,229
• Publication Number:
  US 20060288306A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,421 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/248, 709/205, 709/217, 709/219, 709/25, 709/223, 715/800, 715/804
• US Class Current: 709/248
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131

Abstract

Techniques relating to enabling a graphical window modification command to be applied to a remotely generated graphical window are described. In one instance, a process detects a user command to modify a remotely generated application graphical window in a remote terminal session. The process determines whether to initiate the user command at a local machine upon which the remotely generated application graphical window is displayed or at a remote machine which generated the remotely generated application graphical window.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

generating an application graphical window at a first machine;

sending a representation of the application graphical window to a second machine consistent with a remote terminal session;

detecting a user command from the second machine to modify the representation;

transmitting the user command from the second machine to the first machine;

determining whether the application graphical window is in a full-window mode or an outline mode, wherein;

the full-window mode updates the entire application graphical window during the modification, and

the outline mode updates a line indicating a new position and size of the application graphical window during the modification;

responsive to completion of the user command upon the client proxy window, updating the application window to correspond to the proxy window; and

transmitting an updated representation of the application window to the first machine; and

otherwise, initiating the user command to modify the application window at the first machine.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the detecting comprises detecting an on-going user command.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the detecting comprises detecting a user mouse button down click.

4. The method as recited in claim 3, wherein the communicating comprises communicating data relating to a first position of a mouse where the mouse button down click occurred and a second updated mouse position.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the updating comprises receiving parameters related to the proxy graphical window and correspondingly updating the application graphical window.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the user command to modify the representation comprises a user command to resize the representation.

7. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising receiving a communication indicating a user-selected graphical window modification mode of the second machine.

8. The method as recited in claim 7, wherein the user-selected graphical window modification mode relates to at least one of a graphical window move or a graphical window resize.

9. The method as recited in claim 7 further comprising determining whether to initiate the user command on the first machine or the second machine based at least in part on the user-selected graphical window modification mode.

10. A computer storage media comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed, perform acts, comprising:

detecting a user command to modify a remotely generated application graphical window in a remote terminal session;

determining whether the remotely generated application graphical window is in a full-window mode or an outline mode, wherein;

the full-window mode updates the entire application graphical window during the modification, and

the outline mode updates a line indicating a new position and size of the application graphical window during the modification;

responsive to determining that the application graphical window is in the outline mode;

initiating the user command to modify the remotely generated application graphical window at a local machine upon which the remotely generated application graphical window is displayed; and

otherwise initiating the user command to modify the remotely generated application graphical window at a remote machine which generated the remotely generated application graphical window.

11. The computer storage media of claim 10, wherein the user command to modify the remotely generated application graphical window comprises a user command to move or resize (move/resize) the remotely generated application graphical window.

12. The computer storage media of claim 10, wherein the detecting and the determining occur at the remote machine.

13. The computer storage media of claim 10, wherein the detecting comprises detecting an ongoing user command.

14. The computer storage media of claim 10, wherein the determining is dependent, at least in part, on a graphical window modification mode of the local machine.

15. The computer storage media of claim 14, wherein in an instance where the modification mode comprises an outline mode, sending information relating to the user command to the local machine to allow a corresponding modification process to be initiated at the local machine.

16. The computer storage media of claim 15 further comprising receiving information regarding actions taken at the local machine upon the remotely generated application graphical window.

17. A system, comprising:

means for receiving a remotely generated application graphical window from a remote machine and for generating a proxy graphical window upon which the remotely generated application graphical window can be painted;

means for relaying user window modification commands relating to the proxy window to the remote machine;

means for determining whether the remotely generated application graphical window is in a full-window mode or an outline mode, wherein;

the full-window mode updates the entire application graphical window during the modification, and

the outline mode updates a line indicating a new position and size of the application graphical window during the modification;

means for, responsive to determining that the application graphical window is in the outline mode;

initiating the user window modification commands to modify the remotely generated application graphical window at a local machine upon which the remotely generated application graphical window is displayed; and

otherwise initiating the user window modification commands to modify the remotely generated application graphical window at a remote machine which generated the remotely generated application graphical window.

18. The system as recited in claim 17, wherein the means for receiving parameters comprises a remote terminal session component.

19. The system as recited in claim 17, wherein the user graphical window modify command relates to at least one of a graphical window move or a graphical window resize.

20. The system as recited in claim 17, further comprising means for relaying data relating to the updated proxy graphical window to the remote machine.