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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2023
Filed:
May. 14, 2022
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Christiaan Brinkhoff, Woodinville, WA (US);
Sandeep Patnaik, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jinhua Fei, Bellevue, WA (US);
Prasanna Padmanabhan, Redmond, WA (US);
Randall Cook, Washington, UT (US);
Matthew Shadbolt, Melbourne, AU;
Roland Radtke, Brier, WA (US);
John Christopher Whytock, Portland, OR (US);
Gary Liao, Bellevue, WA (US);
Alexander Ryan Fromm, Woodinville, WA (US);
Parthasarathy Sundararajan, Bothell, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
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.