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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2001
Filed:
May. 28, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Christopher J. Mairs, London, GB;
Anthony M. Downes, London, GB;
Roderick F. MacFarquhar, London, GB;
Kenneth P. Hughes, East Sussex, GB;
Alex J. Pollitt, London, GB;
John P. Batty, London, GB;
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/40 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/40 ;
Abstract
Method and systems for simulating a high-resolution display of a first computer on a low- resolution display of a second computer are disclosed. A shared application runs on a host computer and its output is displayed in windows both on the host computer and on shadow computers. At any one time, the user of the low-resolution display sees only a portion of the high-resolution display but can scroll the portion seen through the entire high-resolution display.