Citrix Systems, Inc.

Rakesh Kumar

Jacob Jared Summers

Julian Petrov

Chandrasekhara Reddy

Lin Cao

Ian Russell Wesley

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for peer to peer discovery of remote applications are presented. A client device may discover available remote peers and remotely access applications hosted thereon. The client device may send a discovery message over a network and locate one or more peer devices with available remote access. The peer device may respond with a list including applications installed and currently executing application instances that the client device may remotely access. The peer device may dynamically generate the list based on analyzing applications installed on the peer device and application instances executing on the peer device. The client device may initiate remote access of a selected application hosted on the peer device. The peer device may execute the selected application in a remote mode by hooking input and output interfaces associated with the application, and the application may be executed in a shadow desktop environment. These and other features will be discussed further herein.

Peer to peer remote application discovery

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for providing remote access to applications executing on a host device are presented. Aspects described herein may enable a host device to provide remote access to applications executing in a user session by hooking one or more APIs (or other interfaces) associated with an application instance and a window composition module. Dynamically assigned ports may be generated and used to allow a client device to provide remote user input to an application instance operating in a remote access mode. One or more APIs associated with the application instance may be hooked to provide the remote user input to an input queue of the application instance, bypassing an operating system input queue in some embodiments. APIs associated with the application instance and the window composition module may be hooked to allow the host device to recognize window textures generated by the application instance. These recognized window textures may be sent to the remote client device. As a result, according to some aspects, a host device may enable remote access to the application instance by providing remote input to the application instance and forwarding output from the application instance to the remote client device. These and other features will be discussed further herein.

Providing remote access to applications through interface hooks

A virtual server includes one or more processors that execute instructions to generate a virtual desktop, and generate an active virtual monitor and a paused virtual monitor for the generated virtual desktop. A first portion of the generated virtual desktop is assigned to the active virtual monitor, and a second portion of the generated virtual desktop is assigned to the paused virtual monitor. The active and paused virtual monitors each have a respective allocated memory. The amount of memory allocated for the paused virtual monitor is less than the amount of memory allocated for the active virtual monitor. A captured image of at least one of the first and second portions of the generated virtual desktop is provided for presenting on a physical monitor of a client device.

Systems and methods for providing virtual monitors

Method for delivering an immersive remote desktop involves a client server session involving a server computer and a client computer. The server computer accesses image data representative of at least one of an application window and a desktop associated with a graphical user interface (GUI). The image data is used to generate one or more stereoscopic image pairs. The client computer incorporates the one or more stereoscopic image pairs in a 3D composite presentation in which one or more of the stereoscopic image pairs are displayed in side-by-side (SBS) configuration to create a 3D visual effect.

Delivering an immersive remote desktop

Computer-implemented systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for providing virtual monitors. In accordance with some embodiments, a number of virtual monitors in which to provide a virtual desktop and a characteristic of one of the virtual monitors can be identified. A virtual monitor can then be generated based on the characteristic, and a portion of the virtual desktop can be assigned to the virtual monitor based at least in part on the identified number. An image of the portion of the virtual desktop can then be captured from the virtual monitor, and provided for presentation on a monitor of a client device.

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Pompano Beach, FL, United States of America

Rakesh Kumar