Patent ID: 6448958
Filing Date: 2002-09-10
Classification: G06F,H04M

Abstract:
A method of functionally providing a general purpose windows operating system and an application program running under such operating system at a terminal having processing power, storage resources and/or display resolution insufficient to run said windows operating system and application program, comprising the steps of;(a) providing the general purpose windows operating system and application program running under such operating; system on a server connected to a communication network (b) remotely accessing said server from said terminal via said communication network and transmitting input information generated by an input device of said terminal to said server for said windows operating system and/or said application program; (c) receiving in said server the input information transmitted from said terminal and interfacing the input information to the windows operating system and/or application program; (d) generating first rendering image data at said server at a first image resolution consisting of a first number of bits per picture element by the windows operating system and outputting said first rendering image data from said windows operating system to a rendering instruction part of said server; (e) receiving said first rendering image data and converting said first rendering image data at said server to second rendering image data at a second image resolution consisting of a second number of bits per picture element less than the first number of bits by said rendering instruction part of said server; (f) forming a rendering instruction including said second rendering image data by said rendering instruction part of said server and transmitting said rendering instruction from said server to said terminal; (g) at the terminal, receiving the rendering instruction transmitted from the server to said terminal; and (h) displaying on a display screen of said terminal a windows image at the second image resolution according to the received rendering instruction.