Patent ID: 7624192

Claim:
A system embodied on a computer-readable storage medium that facilitates controlling a computing device, the system comprising: a local agent component configured to: receive local input device data from one or more local input devices of a local system; route the local input device data to a remote system for the control thereof with the one or more local input devices, switch the local input device data to the remote system upon detecting a motion of a user interface pointer associated with a switching area on a user interface of the local system; and transmit content from a local clipboard at the local system to a remote clipboard at the remote system upon detecting that the content has been copied to the local clipboard, wherein: a location of the switching area on the user interface of the local system is determined based on a physical location of the remote system relative to a physical location of the local system; and the motion of the user interface pointer associated with the switching area is selected from the group consisting of: placing the user interface pointer within the switching area, moving the user interface pointer in a particular direction within the switching area, moving the user interface pointer within a particular speed range within the switching area, and combinations thereof.