Patent ID: 8286082
Filing Date: 2012-10-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. In a networked computing system, a method for providing, by a remote machine, access to a desk band associated with a resource executing on a local machine, the method comprising: (a) receiving, by a local agent executing on a local machine, window attribute data associated with a taskbar window maintained by a remote machine; (b) displaying, by the local agent, to a user of the local machine, a first local window representing the taskbar window maintained on the remote machine, responsive to the received window attribute data; (c) generating, by the local agent, a second local window displaying a desk band associated with a resource provided by the local machine, the second local window being a child of a local taskbar window maintained on the local machine; (d) re-parenting, by the local agent, the second local window to the first local window representing the remote taskbar window maintained on the remote machine, by at least changing ownership of the second local window from the local taskbar window maintained on the local machine to the first local window representing the remote taskbar window maintained on the remote machine; (e) receiving, by the local agent from the remote machine, window attribute data about a window region that reserves space on the remote taskbar window for a local display of the second local window; and (f) directing, by the local agent, a display of the second local window displaying a desk band associated with the resource provided by the local machine, the second local window displayed at a window region identified responsive to the received window attribute data, and displaying and maintaining output data representing the re-parented second local window on a location on top of the first local window corresponding to the reserved window region on the remote taskbar.