Patent ID: 7418141

Claim:
A method for recognizing the coordinates of one or more characters within a display generated on a first computer wherein the character coordinates are used for testing a computer program executing on the first computer wherein the computer program is tested from a second computer, the method comprising: receiving the display of the first computer at the second computer, the display of the first computer transmitted to the second computer by an operating system independent video and input/output redirection device associated with the first computer; receiving a search string identifying the characters and a request to locate the characters within the display; generating a binary representation of the display and the search string; in response to the request, locating the characters of the search string within the display and returning the location of the characters within the display and an indicator as to whether the characters are highlighted; and utilizing the indicator and the coordinates of the characters in an automated test program executing on the second computer to test the computer program executing on the first computer.