Systems, devices, and methods for remote access

• US 20080082187A1
• Filed: 10/02/2006
• Published: 04/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GOTO Group Incorporated (LogMeIn, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc. (Cloud Software Group)
• Inventors: Winterstein, Florian, Piasecki, Derek
• Granted Patent: US 8,694,137 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/94
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L

Abstract

A first computer is remotely accessed by a second computer. Sound output is generated at the first computer, but is selectively muted at the first computer and transmitted to, and output at, the second computer.

Claims

1. A method for remote access, the method comprising:

generating sound output at a first computer;

muting the presentation of the sound output at the first computer; and

transmitting the sound output to a second computer.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising presenting the transmitted sound output at the second computer.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising unmuting the presentation of the sound output at the first computer.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein muting the presentation of the sound output comprises muting a local analog line output.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein transmitting the sound output to the second computer comprises recording a local analog line output.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the local analog line output is a loopback recording input.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising transmitting the contents of a display of the first computer to the second computer.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising storing the contents of the display of the first computer in a display memory prior to transmitting the contents to the second computer.

9. The method of claim 7 further comprising displaying, at the second computer, the contents of the display of the first computer.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the sound output generated at the first computer is generated by a sound card at the first computer.

11. A first computer comprising:

a sound card configured to generate sound output;

software for muting the presentation of the sound output at the first computer; and

software for transmitting the sound output to a second computer.

12. The first computer of claim 11 further comprising a display and software for transmitting the contents of the display to the second computer.

13. The first computer of claim 12 further comprising a display memory for storing the contents of the display prior to transmitting the contents of the display to the second computer.

14. The first computer of claim 11 further comprising software for unmuting the presentation of the sound output at the first computer.

15. The first computer of claim 11 wherein the sound card comprises a local analog line output configured to output the generated sound output.

16. The first computer of claim 11 wherein the sound card comprises a loopback recording input for recording the generated sound output.

17. A computer-readable storage medium containing instructions for a general purpose computer having a sound card capable of generating a sound output, the set of instructions comprising:

instructions for muting the presentation of sound output generated at a first computer; and

instructions for transmitting the sound output to a second computer.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17 further comprising instructions for presenting the transmitted sound output at the second computer.

19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17 further comprising instructions for unmuting the presentation of the sound output at the first computer.

20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17 wherein the instructions for muting the presentation of the sound output comprise instructions for muting a local analog line output.

21. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17 wherein the instructions for transmitting the sound output to a second computer comprise instructions for recording a local analog line output.

22. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17 further comprising instructions for transmitting the contents of a display of the first computer to the second computer.

23. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 22 further comprising instructions for storing the contents of the display of the first computer in a display memory prior to transmitting the contents to the second computer.

24. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 22 further comprising instructions for displaying, at the second computer, the contents of the display of the first computer.

25. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17 wherein the instructions for muting the presentation of the sound output comprise instructions for muting the presentation of the sound output generated by a sound card at the first computer.

26. A method for remote access, the method comprising:

receiving a request for remote access at a first computer from a second computer; and

in response to the request, automatically muting the sound at the first computer without user intervention.

27. The method of claim 26 wherein automatically muting the sound at the first computer without user intervention comprises automatically muting the sound output generated by a sound card at the first computer without user intervention.