Cisco Technology, Inc.

Liam Patrick O'Gorman

Randall Bernard Baird

Stephan Edward Friedl

Joe Smyth

J Steven Mayer

Joseph Smyth

Brian Dal Bello

Techniques are provided for establishing a Unified Communications (UC) session between a client endpoint device and remote endpoint devices, the client endpoint device managing the session using a first-party call control protocol in response to commands from a third-party control protocol and user input. A hosted virtual desktop (HVD) generates an HVD image and communicates it to the client endpoint device for display, via a virtual desktop interface (VDI) protocol. The HVD image comprises a UC user interface generated by a UC application on the HVD, the user interface comprising at least one user interface element and at least one placeholder where a client-provided user interface element may be inserted. A client UC application receives the HVD image and inserts client-provided user interface elements over the placeholders before sending the integrated image to a client operating system to be rendered on the display of client endpoint device.

Integrated user interface for unified communications applications

A communication is established between a client device and a server device, where the server device executes one or more hosted virtual desktop (HVD) applications for the client device. A media data stream including at least one of audio content and video content is transmitted from the client device to the server device, where audio and video content of the media data stream is captured by one or more input devices at the client device and is utilized by an HVD application at the server device. In response to a request for the media data stream by a second application that is local to the client device or is operating at a remote device, transmission of the media data stream to the server device is selectively suspended or shared with the second application.

Sharing audio and video device on a client endpoint device between local use and hosted virtual desktop use

A host device receives from a user at a first client device a first login request for hosted virtual desktop (HVD) services. A first virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) session is started upon receiving a valid first login request. A first unified communications (UC) session is established between the first client device and an endpoint device. A second login request is received from the user at a second client device, the second login request configured to request HVD services. A second VDI session is started to mediate an HVD session for the user upon receiving a valid second login request. A second UC session is established between the second client device and the endpoint device. A media communication session associated with the first UC session is transferred from the first client device to the second client device after the second VDI session is started and the second UC session is established.

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