Patent ID: 8681811

Claim:
A method of communicating with a terminal system, said method comprising: locating a terminal screen buffer within a server system, said terminal screen buffer created for said terminal system that does not use a first graphics terminal protocol used natively by said server system, said terminal screen buffer storing a digital representation of a display screen of said terminal system; receiving, at the server system, data to be transmitted to said terminal system; based on first data that is a graphical update to said digital display screen representation of said terminal screen buffer: reading said graphical update stored in said terminal screen buffer; and transmitting said graphical update to said terminal system in a display update message using a second graphics terminal protocol natively supported by said terminal system without converting said graphical update from said first graphics terminal protocol to said second graphics terminal protocol; and based on second data that is not said graphical update to said terminal screen buffer: translating said second data for said terminal system from said first graphics terminal protocol used natively by said server system to said second graphics terminal protocol used natively by said terminal system; and transmitting said translated second data to said terminal system.