Patent ID: 8521917

Claim:
A method comprising: sending a bus signature that makes a local operating system aware of a digitizer detected on a remote tablet computing system, the digitizer configured to generate touch data from contact with a touch screen of the remote tablet computing system, the bus signature being sent from a bus driver within the local operating system; obtaining and loading a device driver at the local operating system, the device driver configured to control the touch data generated by the digitizer of the remote tablet computing system; receiving, from the remote tablet computing system, data packets containing the touch data, the receiving including receiving at least one place holding data packet that includes less data than a previous data packet; recreating, by the device driver, touch data contained in the previous data packet responsive to determining that the received data packet is the place holding data packet; and injecting, by the device driver, the touch data into the local operating system's input stack at a driver layer or hardware layer that corresponds to a corresponding driver layer or hardware layer on the remote tablet computing system at which the touch data was generated by the digitizer.