Patent ID: 6259443
Filing Date: 2001-07-10
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
A method of enabling a plurality of users to simultaneously use a processing system, the method comprising:maintaining a desktop within the processing system;defining a plurality of subsets of the desktop in the form of a plurality of windows;maintaining the windows such that the windows are simultaneously active; andmapping each window to a different one of a plurality of frame buffers within the processing system, each of the frame buffers associated with a different one of a plurality of input/output systems coupled to the processing system, such that each window represents an active desktop for display on the corresponding input/output system;storing each of the windows in a corresponding one of the frame buffers; andproviding each of the windows from the corresponding frame buffer to the corresponding input/output system, such that the windows are simultaneously displayed as desktops on their respective input/output systems.