System using touchscreen user interface of a mobile device to remotely control a host computer

• US 7,870,496 B1
• Filed: 01/29/2009
• Issued: 01/11/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: iTeleport, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Jahanzeb Ahmed Sherwani
• Inventors: Sherwani, Jahanzeb Ahmed
• Primary Examiner(s): LUU, LE HIEN
• Application Number:
  US12/362,248
• Time in Patent Office: 712 Days
• Field of Search: 715/761, 715/740, 715/737, 715/718, 715/249, 709/223, 709/248, 382/306
• US Class Current: 715/761
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality

Abstract

Various embodiments relate to a local computing device that includes a display and a touchscreen interface. The device is operable to establish a remote network computing session with a host computer system, transmit touch event information associated with touch events, receive graphical display information corresponding to a host image associated with the host computer system, translate the graphical display information from host coordinates to local coordinates, update the local image based on the graphical display information, the local image comprising a selected portion of the host image, and, in response to mouse movement events caused by associated touch events, change the selected portion of the host image while keeping a cursor in the center of the display, except when the center of the selected portion is within a predetermined limit of an edge of the host image, thereafter move the cursor relative to the local display.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a display operable to display a local image defined relative to local image space coordinates;

a touchscreen interface positioned over the display, the touchscreen interface operable to register and track one or more touch events occurring over the touchscreen interface;

one or more processors; and

one or more computer-readable tangible media encoding one or more instructions that, when executed collectively by the processors;

establish a remote network computing (RNC) session with a host computer system over a network;

transmit, to the host computer system, touch event information associated with touch events;

receive, from the host computer system, graphical display information corresponding to a host image associated with the host computer system, the host image being defined relative to host image space coordinates, the graphical display information being received in host image space coordinates;

translate the graphical display information from host image space coordinates to local image space coordinates;

update the local image based on the graphical display information, the local image comprising a selected portion of the host image; and

in response to mouse movement events caused by associated touch events, change the selected portion of the host image while keeping a cursor displayed on the display in the center of the display.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the cursor displayed on the display is kept in the center of the display except when the center of the selected portion of the host image is within a predetermined limit of an edge of the host image, thereafter the cursor is moved relative to the local display in at least one dimension.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the touchscreen interface is configured to recognize single point and multipoint gestures.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the touch event information sent to the host computer system includes graphical display coordinates associated with the touch events.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the graphical display coordinates sent to the host computer system are host image space coordinates.

6. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the touch event information sent to the host computer system includes mouse events and corresponding graphical display coordinates associated with the touch events.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the touch event information sent to the host computer system is encrypted.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the network comprises one or more of a group consisting of:

a wired network, a wireless network, a cellular network, a Bluetooth connection and an Infrared (IR) connection.

9. A method comprising:

establishing a remote network computing (RNC) session between a local computing device and a host computer system over a network, the local computing device including

a display operable to display a local image defined relative to local image space coordinates; and

a touchscreen interface positioned over the display, the touchscreen interface operable to register and track one or more touch events occurring over the touchscreen interface;

transmitting, to the host computer system, touch event information associated with touch events;

receiving, from the host computer system, graphical display information corresponding to a host image associated with the host computer system, the host image being defined relative to host image space coordinates, the graphical display information being received in host image space coordinates;

translating the graphical display information from host image space coordinates to local image space coordinates;

updating the local image based on the graphical display information, the local image comprising a selected portion of the host image; and

in response to mouse movement events caused by associated touch events, changing the selected portion of the host image while keeping a cursor displayed on the display in the center of the display.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the cursor displayed on the display is kept in the center of the display except when the center of the selected portion of the host image is within a predetermined limit of an edge of the host image, thereafter the method further comprising moving the cursor relative to the local display in at least one dimension.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the touchscreen interface is configured to recognize single point and multipoint gestures.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the touch event information sent to the host computer system includes graphical display coordinates associated with the touch events.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the graphical display coordinates sent to the host computer system are host image space coordinates.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the touch event information sent to the host computer system includes mouse events and corresponding graphical display coordinates associated with the touch events.

15. The method of claim 9, further comprising encrypting the touch event information sent to the host computer system.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the network comprises one or more of a group consisting of:

a wired network, a wireless network, a cellular network, a Bluetooth connection and an Infrared (IR) connection.

17. Software embodied in one or more tangible computer-readable media for execution by one or more processors, the software when executed operable to:

establish a remote network computing (RNC) session between a local computing device and a host computer system over a network, the local computing device including

a display operable to display a local image defined relative to local image space coordinates; and

a touchscreen interface positioned over the display, the touchscreen interface operable to register and track one or more touch events occurring over the touchscreen interface;

transmit, to the host computer system, touch event information associated with touch events;

receive, from the host computer system, graphical display information corresponding to a host image associated with the host computer system, the host image being defined relative to host image space coordinates, the graphical display information being received in host image space coordinates;

translate the graphical display information from host image space coordinates to local image space coordinates;

update the local image based on the graphical display information, the local image comprising a selected portion of the host image; and

in response to mouse movement events caused by associated touch events, change the selected portion of the host image while keeping a cursor displayed on the display in the center of the display.

18. The software of claim 17, wherein the cursor displayed on the display is kept in the center of the display except when the center of the selected portion of the host image is within a predetermined limit of an edge of the host image, thereafter the software is operable to move the cursor relative to the local display in at least one dimension.

19. The software of claim 17, wherein the software is further operable to recognize single point and multipoint gestures.

20. The software of claim 17, wherein the touch event information sent to the host computer system includes graphical display coordinates associated with the touch events.

21. The software of claim 20, wherein the graphical display coordinates sent to the host computer system are host image space coordinates.

22. The software of claim 20, wherein the touch event information sent to the host computer system includes mouse events and corresponding graphical display coordinates associated with the touch events.

23. The software of claim 17, wherein the software is further operable to encrypt the touch event information sent to the host computer system.

24. The software of claim 17, wherein the network comprises one or more of a group consisting of:

a wired network, a wireless network, a cellular network, a Bluetooth connection and an Infrared (IR) connection.