Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Alexander Ryan Fromm

Randall Richards Cook

John C Whytock

Prasanna Chromepet Padmanabhan

Parthasarathy Sundararajan

Sandeep Patnaik

Roland Radtke

Jinhua Fei

Gary Liao

Matthew Shadbolt

Christiaan Brinkhoff

A desktop switcher provides equally convenient user interface navigational access to remote virtual desktops as to local virtual desktops for reliable and convenient human-computer interaction. Underlying mechanisms transparently confirm remote computer availability and compatibility, transfer thumbnails between computers, and support remoting sessions. Virtual desktops may share a clipboard, a geographic location setting, and application thumbnails, despite being based on computers that are remote from one another, e.g., when only one of a session's computers resides in a cloud. Virtual desktop context menus may be shown and utilized remotely. A visual separator in the desktop switcher may distinguish local virtual desktops from remote virtual desktops.

Virtual desktop switching and communications

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Woodinville, WA, United States of America

Alexander Ryan Fromm