DELIVERY OF A USER INTERFACE USING HYPERTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL
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1. A method for remotely accessing an application hosted by a server and having a corresponding application graphical user interface (GUI) represented on the server, the method comprising:
- causing the client to automatically send GUI display update requests to the server throughout a duration of the access, wherein each of the GUI display update requests is communicated to the server via a corresponding HTTP connection; and
receiving from the server, in response to the GUI display update request, a response from the server that includes an encoded image of at least a portion of the GUI.
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Abstract
A method is provided to remotely access an application hosted by a server and having a corresponding application graphical user interface (GUI) represented on the server, the method comprising: a client automatically sending GUI display update requests to the server throughout a duration of the access, the requests being HTTP requests over corresponding HTTP connections.
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1. A method for remotely accessing an application hosted by a server and having a corresponding application graphical user interface (GUI) represented on the server, the method comprising:
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causing the client to automatically send GUI display update requests to the server throughout a duration of the access, wherein each of the GUI display update requests is communicated to the server via a corresponding HTTP connection; and receiving from the server, in response to the GUI display update request, a response from the server that includes an encoded image of at least a portion of the GUI. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for providing remote access to a graphical user interface (GUI) generated at a server and represented on the server by a bitmap image within a frame buffer on the server, the method comprising:
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receiving successive GUI display update requests from a client, each of the GUI display update requests being received by the server via a corresponding HTTP connection; and responsive to each of the successive GUI display update requests, sending to the client a response that includes an encoded image of at least a portion of the GUI. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method for providing remote access to an application, the method comprising:
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maintaining a mapping between a plurality of URLs and a corresponding plurality of applications; receiving a URL from a remote user; identifying one application of the corresponding applications, the one application corresponding to the received URL; authenticating the user and determining whether the user has authorization to access the one application; remoting the one application to the user via a remoting protocol when the user is authenticated and has the authorization to access the one application. - View Dependent Claims (22)
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