Patent ID: 11875164
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations for seamlessly launching one or more local applications from a remote desktop, the operations comprising:
receiving, at a client device from a user or administrator of the client device via a user interface (UI), input selecting one or more local applications to be registered at the remote desktop;
in response to the input selecting the one or more local applications to be registered, sending, from the client device to a connection server, redirected local application information associated with the one or more local applications of the client device;
receiving, by a remote device running the remote desktop, the redirected local application information from the connection server;
registering, by the remote device, the one or more local applications of the client device with the remote desktop based on the redirected local application information, the registering including adding the one or more local applications of the client device to a context menu of a file located on the remote device;
receiving a selection, from the user of the client device via the context menu displayed in a remote desktop window displayed on the client device, of the file located on the remote device running the remote desktop, of a local application of the one or more local applications to open the file;
in response to receiving the selection of the local application of the one or more local applications to open the file, receiving, by the client device from the remote desktop, a request for the client device to launch the local application and load the file; and
in response to receiving the request from the remote desktop, displaying the local application in the remote desktop window displayed on the client device.