Patent ID: 8453069
Filing Date: 2013-05-28
Classification: G06F,G09G,H04L

Abstract:
1. A thin client system which includes a server apparatus and a client apparatus, transmits a screen including a plurality of windows operated in the server apparatus to the client apparatus, and displays the screen in the client apparatus, comprising: a window display section which receives screen information of each window operated and displayed in the server apparatus to display the screen information of the each window in the client apparatus; a storage section which acquires control information including window names identifying the windows upon receipt of the screen information of the each window and stores the control information and scaled-down capture images showing the screen information of the each window in scaled-down size, in the client apparatus; a list display section which reads out window names of the windows operated in the server apparatus from the storage section and displays a list of window names of the windows operated in the server apparatus in the client apparatus, in response to a list display instruction operation by the user in the client apparatus; a preview display section which, at each time when a name of the desired window is selected by the user among the window names displayed by the list display section, reads out a scaled-down capture image of a window corresponding to the name of the desired window and displays a preview of the scaled-down capture image in the client apparatus; and a transmitting section which, if a window corresponding to the selected window name in the preview display section is required, transmits information from the client apparatus to the server apparatus, the information requiring an updated window screen corresponding to the selected window name.