Patent ID: 7737910

Claim:
A method comprising: advertising, from a primary terminal client coupled to a plurality of small displays, the availability of a contiguous large display to a terminal server, the large contiguous display comprising the plurality of small displays that are controlled by thin clients, the primary terminal client being a gateway device that presents itself as a single client to the terminal server while presenting itself as another server to the thin clients; receiving a remote terminal services environment over a network from the terminal server at the primary terminal client, the remote terminal services environment formatted for display on the large contiguous display that comprises the plurality of small displays; receiving configuration information respectively from a plurality of thin clients at the primary terminal client, each of the received configuration information including attribute information associated with a small display that is part of the large contiguous display; reformatting the remote terminal services environment on the primary terminal client for display on a number of the plurality of small displays that are part of the large contiguous display; distributing reformatted remote terminal services environment from the primary terminal client to at least some of the small displays; and managing an active cursor that is displayed on the large contiguous display to pass the active cursor from one of the small displays to another of the small displays in response a mouse movement received by the primary terminal client.