Patent ID: 8161392
Filing Date: 2012-04-17
Classification: G06F,G09G,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of managing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) comprising a communicatively coupled set, the communicatively coupled set comprising a GUI module, a display and an at least one user input device, the at least one user input device enabled to generate Human Interface Device (HID) events, the method comprising: establishing, by the GUI module, a remote desktop session between the GUI and a computer over an Internet Protocol (IP) network, the remote desktop session comprising a remote desktop image rendered and encoded by the computer; selecting, by the GUI, User Interface (UI) settings responsive to a first event, the first event received from one of the at least one user input device, the computer or a computing appliance, the computing appliance in communicative coupling with the GUI via a GUI session, the computing appliance agnostic to the remote desktop session, the UI settings determining a distribution of the HID events between the remote desktop session and the GUI session; and displaying, on the display, via the GUI session, an appliance image from the computing appliance, the appliance image combined with the remote desktop image based on the UI settings, wherein displaying the appliance image comprises selectively overlaying the remote desktop image with the appliance image by adjusting an overlaying parameter according to a priority, the priority determined from at least one of the first event, a user input event or the GUI session.