Methods and systems for an intermediate graphical desktop sharing protocol

• US 9,939,984 B2
• Filed: 08/28/2015
• Issued: 04/10/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Skytap Incorporated (Kyndryl Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Skytap Incorporated (Kyndryl Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Schick, Bradley M., Novodvorskiy, Petr, Pearson, Alan
• Primary Examiner(s): NABI, REZA U
• Application Number:
  US14/839,818
• Publication Number:
  US 20150373151A1
• Time in Patent Office: 956 Days
• Field of Search: 715733
• 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 5/00 Methods or arrangements for data conversion without changing the order or content of the data handled
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0226 Mapping or translating multiple network management protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/75 Media network packet handling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/08 specially adapted for terminal emulation, e.g. Telnet
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

Generating a universal graphical desktop sharing protocol is disclosed. The universal graphical desktop sharing protocol is configured to communicate information (e.g., a sequence of one or more desktop sharing events) that has been translated from a first graphical desktop sharing protocol and is available to be translated into a final graphical desktop sharing protocol.

Claims

1. At least one computer-readable medium not exclusively consisting of a transitory signal per se having contents that, when executed by at least one data processing device, performs graphical desktop sharing technology, comprising:

determining that a first graphical desktop protocol is available at a computing resource at a time when the computing resource has not loaded a guest operating system, wherein a second graphical desktop protocol is available at the computing resource when the guest operating system has at least partially loaded;

in response to receiving, from a client, a data stream in a third graphical desktop protocol for communicating with the computing resource at the time when the computing resource has not loaded the guest operating system, converting at least a first portion of the data stream from using the third graphical desktop protocol into a configuration that is compliant with the first graphical desktop protocol; and

in response to determining that the second graphical desktop protocol is available at the computing resource, converting at least a second portion of the data stream from using the third graphical desktop protocol into a configuration that is compliant with the second graphical desktop protocol.

2. The computer-readable storage device of claim 1, wherein the configuration that is compliant with the first desktop sharing protocol and the configuration that is compliant with the second desktop sharing protocol are the same configuration.

3. The computer-readable storage device of claim 2, wherein the configuration is a universal desktop sharing protocol, wherein the universal desktop sharing protocol can translate between a plurality of types of desktop sharing protocols and wherein the computing resource is a VM.

4. The computer-readable storage device of claim 3, wherein a first of the plurality of types of desktop sharing protocols is based on a remote frame buffer protocol and a second of the plurality of types of desktop sharing protocols is based on an ITU-T T.128 protocol.

5. The computer-readable storage device of claim 1, wherein the conversion is based on an extensible protocol conversion.

6. The computer-readable storage device of claim 3, further comprising generating a visual representation of video associated with the computing resource.

7. The computer-readable storage device of claim 3, further comprising modifying a record to indicate whether the computing resource is available for communication in the first graphical desktop protocol or the second graphical desktop protocol.

8. The computer-readable storage device of claim 3, further comprising verifying whether an entry in a record indicates that the client is authorized to communicate with the computing resource.

9. The computer-readable storage device of claim 3, further comprising verifying whether an entry in a record indicates that the client is authorized to communicate using the third graphical desktop protocol, wherein the computing.

10. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

determining that a first computing resource is accessible via a first desktop sharing protocol at a first time, wherein the first computing resource is accessible via a second desktop sharing protocol at a second time;

in response to receiving, prior to the second time, data from a second computing resource to communicate with the first computing resource, converting the data from a third desktop sharing protocol into a format that is compliant with the first desktop sharing protocol; and

in response to receiving, after the second time, data from the second computing resource to communicate with the first computing resource, converting the data in the third desktop sharing protocol into a format that is compliant with the second desktop sharing protocol,

wherein the first desktop sharing protocol is available when a computing resource has not loaded a guest operating system, and the second desktop sharing protocol is available when the guest operating system has at least partially loaded.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the format that is compliant with the first desktop sharing protocol is also compliant with the second desktop sharing protocol.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, further comprising generating a visual representation of video output of the first computing resource.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein at least one of the desktop sharing protocols is based on VNC or RDP.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, further comprising determining whether the first computing resource is available for communicating using the first desktop sharing protocol or using the second desktop sharing protocol.

15. One or more hardware computer systems each including at least one processor, comprising:

a communication subsystem configured to receive a computing resource indication that a first desktop sharing protocol is available for communicating with the computer resource; and

a conversion subsystem configured to in response to receiving, from a client for delivery to the computing resource, a data stream in a third desktop sharing protocol, convert portions of the data stream from using the third desktop sharing protocol into a format that is compliant with the first desktop sharing protocol,

the communication subsystem being further configured to, in response to determining that a second desktop sharing protocol is available at the computing resource, send portions of the data stream in a format that is compliant with the second desktop sharing protocol,

wherein the first desktop sharing protocol is available at a time when a computing resource has not loaded a guest operating system, and the second desktop sharing protocol is available at a time when the guest operating system has at least partially loaded.

16. The one or more hardware computer systems of claim 15, further configured to determine whether the computing resource is available for communicating using the first desktop sharing protocol or using the second graphical desktop sharing protocol.

17. The one or more hardware computer systems of claim 15, wherein the format that is compliant with the first desktop sharing protocol and the format that is compliant with the second desktop sharing protocol are the same format.

18. The one or more hardware computer systems of claim 15, wherein the indication includes registration information.

19. A computing system for providing a universal graphical desktop sharing protocol for use in a hosted virtual computing environment, comprising:

at least one processor; and

one or more components responsive to instructions executed by the at least one processor wherein the one or more components are configured to;

in response to receiving a first indication that a first computing resource is available to receive data in a first graphical desktop sharing format, sending a first portion of a data stream to the first computing resource, wherein the first portion of the data stream was converted from a universal graphical desktop sharing format into the first desktop sharing format; and

in response to receiving a second indication that the first computing resource is available to receive data in a second graphical desktop sharing format, sending a second portion of the data stream to the first computing resource, wherein the second portion of the data stream was converted from the universal graphical desktop sharing format into the second graphical desktop sharing format,

wherein the first graphical desktop sharing format is available at a time when a computing resource has not loaded a guest operating system, and the second graphical desktop sharing format is available at a time when the guest operating system has at least partially loaded.

20. The computing system of claim 19, wherein the first graphical desktop sharing format is available at the first computing resource before a guest operating system is operational.

21. The computing system of claim 19, wherein the second graphical desktop sharing format is not available at the first computing resource before a guest operating system is at least partially loaded.

22. The computing system of claim 19, wherein the first indication is received by a virtual network interface card.