Patent ID: 8484290

Claim:
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) detecting, by a local agent in communication with a registry on a local machine, a request, by a first shell on the local machine, for creation of a desk band object associated with a resource provided by the local machine; (b) instantiating, by the local agent, a proxy container object, responsive to detecting the request; (c) instantiating, by the proxy container object, the desk band object; (d) receiving, by a remote agent executing on a remote machine, an identification of the desk band object associated with the resource provided by the local machine; (e) maintaining, by the remote agent, a window region in a taskbar on a desktop environment maintained on the remote machine, the window region representing the identified desk band object; (f) instantiating, by the remote agent, on the remote machine, a proxy handler associated with the identified desk band object; (g) receiving, by the proxy container object, from the proxy handler, an identification of a window region associated with the identified desk band object; (h) identifying, by the proxy container object, for the desk band object, the identified window region as a desk band site; (i) translating, by the proxy container object, the identified window region into an identification of a window region on a display on the local machine; and (j) directing, by the desk band object, a display of output data in the identified window region in a display on the local machine of the desktop environment maintained on the remote machine.