Patent ID: 8375126

Claim:
A process for migrating an X session from a first computing device to a further computing device coupled via a computer network that communicates data signals therebetween, comprising: (a) providing, on a first computing device having physical hardware including a display and at least one processor, an X session comprising a protocol router, an X server display connected to at least one X client, the X server display being architected to not depend on the first computing device's physical hardware but to instead maintain a device-independent view of such hardware and provide a presentation layer that maps the device-independent view to the underlying hardware and vice versa, thereby hiding device-independent characteristics from the X client; serializing the X server display on the first computing device to cause a cloned copy of the X server display to be created, with identical state and contents of the first-mentioned X server display, and which causes the cloned copy of the X server display to respond with protocol indistinguishable from that of the first-mentioned X server display; (b) transferring the serialized X server display from said first workstation computing device to a further computing device different from the first computing device; and (c) deserializing said serialized X server display on said further computing device to process X protocol on said further computing device, thereby causing the X session to appear on said further computing device.