Patent ID: 9471951
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: G06F,G06T

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving a user initiated action from a remote desktop provided on a client computer, wherein the remote desktop provides a display for a corresponding virtual machine; in response to receiving the user action, encoding a first watermark into image data of a first updated display that is communicated to the client when initiating an operation based on the received action, wherein the first watermark is encoded with first pixels indicative of a start time of the operation and second pixels identifying the first watermark; providing the updated display to the client for presentation in the remote desktop; completing the operation; in response to completing the operation, encoding a second watermark into image data of a second updated display that is communicated to the client, wherein the second watermark is encoded with third pixels indicative of an end of the operation and fourth pixels identifying the second watermark; and receiving data based on detection of the first watermark and the second watermark by the client computer, wherein the received data indicates an operation performance time.