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US 9,444,894 · App. 12/546,665 · Granted Sep 13, 2016

System and method for communicating events at a server to a remote device

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Patent No.
US 9,444,894
App. No.
12/546,665
Granted
Sep 13, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

Examples of systems and methods are provided for communicating events at a server to a remote client device. A system may allow communication and may provide, to a remote client device, a message related to an event at a server. The system may comprise an agent module configured to receive notification of the event at the server, configured to determine an action, based on the event, to be performed by the remote client device on a graphical user interface (GUI) at the remote client device or a remote view at the remote client device, configured to generate the message based on the determined action, and configured to direct the message to the remote client device. The GUI may be a GUI for controlling an application running on the server from the remote client device, and the remote view may be a view of the application running on the server.

Claims (42)

1. A system for communicating and for providing, to a remote client device, a message related to an event at a local server, in which the event is in response to one or more user inputs from the remote client device, comprising:

a physical network interface;

a processor;

a non-transitory machine-readable medium communicatively coupled to the processor; and

instructions stored on the non-transitory machine-readable medium, the instructions, when loaded and executed by the processor, cause the processor to:

receive a notification of the event at the local server;

determine, based on the event, whether a remote graphical user interface (GUI) is to be activated for a user at the remote client device to allow remotely controlling an application on the local server from the remote client device, the remote client device is a mobile device;

select a remote GUI from a plurality of remote GUIs that matches a type of application indicated in the notification;

generate the message when the instructions determine that the remote GUI is to be activated, wherein the message includes a command for the remote client device to activate the selected remote GUI at the remote client device;

deactivate, based on the event, a local GUI of the application from a display output data sent to the remote client device, the display output data includes an image of the display output of the application and is used by the remote client device to create a composite view combining the display output data and the remote GUI; and

direct the message to the remote client device via the network interface.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the event comprises a click on a textbox of the application on the local server, and the remote GUI comprises a graphical keyboard of the remote GUI.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are further configured to receive a command message from the remote client device and configured to control the application on the local server based on the received command message.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the instructions are further configured to resize, move or maximize a view of the application on the local server based on the received command message.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further comprise:

a plurality of slave instructions, wherein each of the slave instructions are configured to control one of a plurality of different applications on the local server based on command messages from the remote client device; and

master instructions configured to direct command messages, from the remote client device, for one of the plurality of different applications to a corresponding one of the plurality of slave agent modules.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the system is the local server comprising a processing system.

7. A method performed at a local server for providing, to a remote client device, a message related to an event at the local server, in which the event is in response to one or more user inputs from the remote client device, comprising:

receiving a notification of the event at the local server;

determining, based on the event, whether a remote graphical user interface (GUI) is to be activated for a user at the remote client device to allow remotely controlling an application on the local server from the remote client device, the remote client device is a mobile device;

selecting a remote GUI from a plurality of remote GUIs that matches a type of application indicated in the notification;

generating the message when a determination is made that the remote GUI is to be activated, wherein the message includes a command for the remote client device to activate the selected remote GUI at the remote client device;

deactivating, based on the event, a local GUI of the application from a display output data sent to the remote client device, the display output data includes an image of the display output of the application and is used by the remote client device to create a composite view combining the display output data and the remote GUI; and

directing the message to the remote client device.

8. A non-transitory machine-readable medium encoded with instructions, the instructions comprising code for:

receiving a notification of an event at a local server, the event corresponding to one or

more user inputs from a remote client device;

determining, based on the event, whether a remote graphical user interface (GUI) that is local to the remote client device is to be activated for a user at the remote client device to allow remotely controlling an application of the local server from the remote client device, the remote client device is a mobile device;

selecting a remote GUI from a plurality of remote GUIs that matches a type of application indicated in the notification;

generating the message when a determination is made that the remote GUI is to be activated, wherein the message includes a command for the remote client device to activate the selected remote GUI at the remote client device;

deactivating, based on the event, a local GUI of the application from a display output data sent to the remote client device, the display output data includes an image of the display output of the application and is used by the remote client device to create a composite view combining the display output data and the remote GUI; and

directing the message to the remote client device.

9. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the event comprises a click on a textbox of the application on the local server, and the remote GUI comprises a graphical keyboard.

10. An apparatus for providing, to a remote client device, a message related to an event at a local server, in which the event is in response to one or more user inputs from the remote client device, comprising:

a network interface;

means for receiving a notification of the event at the local server;

means for determining, based on the event, whether a remote graphical user interface (GUI) is to be activated for a user at the remote client device to allow remotely controlling an application on the local server from the remote client device, the remote client device is a mobile device;

means for selecting a remote GUI from a plurality of remote GUIs that matches a type of application indicated in the notification;

means for generating the message when the means for determining determines that the remote GUI is to be activated, wherein the message includes a command for the remote client device to activate the selected remote GUI at the remote client device;

means for deactivating, based on the event, a local GUI of the application from a display output data sent to the remote client device, the display output data includes an image of the display output of the application and is used by the remote client device to create a composite view combining the display output data and the remote GUI; and

means for directing the message to the remote client device via the network interface.

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