Vmware, Inc.

Keith Whitwell

Salim S AbiEzzi

Methods, techniques, and systems for user interface remoting using video streaming techniques are provided. Example embodiments provide User Interface Remoting and Optimization System ('UIROS'), which enables the efficient remoting of pixel-oriented user interfaces on behalf of their guests using generic video streaming techniques, such as H.264, to send compressed user interface image information in the form of video frame encoded bitstreams. In one embodiment, the UIROS comprises server side support including a UI remoting server, a video encoder, and rendering support and client side support including a UI remoting client, a video decoder, and a display. These components cooperate to implement optimized UI remoting that is bandwidth efficient, low latency and CPU efficient.

User interface remoting through video encoding techniques

A method of transmitting packets at a first node of a network to a second node of the network, includes the steps of determining whether or not a total number of packets that are in flight is less a threshold number of packets, computing a target number of forward error correction (FEC) packets upon determining that the total number is less than the threshold number, transmitting a new FEC packet if the number of FEC packets that are in flight is less than the target number, and transmitting a data packet if the number of FEC packets that are in flight is equal to or greater than the target number.

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Keith Whitwell