Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Zardosht Kasheff

Vladimir Stoyanov

Nelly L Porter

Joy Chik

Makarand V Patwardhan

Vladimir K Stoyanov

A remote access system connects a server computer with one or more client computers, where devices are connected locally at the client computers. The devices are recognized by the client computers and a device driver is provided for each connected and recognized device. A virtual driver is created at the server computer from information specific to the device, such that the virtual driver acts as an actual driver to an application on the server computer. The application through the virtual driver is able to recognize and provide commands to the connected device.

Plug and play device redirection for remote systems

A strategy is described for transmitting data from a first entity to a second entity. The data is transmitted using a format that is selected to accommodate available bandwidth in a communication coupling that connects the first entity and the second entity. The first entity or the second entity can comprise a terminal service (TS) client device and a terminal service (TS) server device, respectively, or vice versa. The strategy can compute the bandwidth by recording timing information associated with the transmission of a short message followed by a longer message from the first entity to the second entity. The short message is used to remove the effects of latency in the computation of bandwidth.

Strategies for selecting a format for data transmission based on measured bandwidth

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