Patent ID: 8725318

Claim:
A system for incorporating Virtual Network Computing (“VNC”) into a cockpit display system, such system comprising: a VNC server of an aircraft-installed system; at least one first user application; a second user application; a pilot input device; and a cockpit display system comprised of a processing module configured to establish a pixel data set representative of a first image, where such first image is comprised of at least one non-VNC widget, and each non-VNC widget is based upon corresponding non-VNC widget data from at least one first user application, receive first input data from the pilot input device, where such first input data corresponds to a request to display a second image, generate first data in response to the first input data, where such first data is representative of the request to display a second image, send the first data to the second user application, such that a VNC client of the second user application is configured to generate second data, where such second data is comprised of a request for remote frame buffer data of the second image, send the second data to the VNC server, receive third data from the VNC server, where such third data is responsive to the request for remote frame buffer data and is comprised of remote frame buffer data of the second image, and send fourth data responsive to the first data, where such fourth data is comprised of first VNC image widget data generated from the third data, receive the fourth data, and incorporate the fourth data into the pixel data set, whereby an image comprised of at least the VNC image widget is represented in the pixel data set.