Patent ID: 7791559

Claim:
A method of supporting multiple display configurations in a remote access environment, the remote access environment having a host computing device in communication with a plurality of host displays and a viewer computing device in communication with one or more viewer displays, the host computing device and viewer computing device in communication via a network, the method comprising: (a) receiving from a host computing device that is in communication with a plurality of host displays, by a viewer computing device having one or more viewer displays, i) screen data for each of the plurality of host displays, and ii) a list of rectangles, each rectangle representing the boundaries of one of the plurality of host displays; (b) presenting, by the viewer computing device to an end-user of the viewer computing device, a graphical user interface for selecting a configuration to display the screen data of the plurality of host displays; and (c) displaying in the selected configuration, by the viewer computing device in a viewable area of the one or more displays of the viewer computing device, a window representing at least a portion of the screen data of the plurality of host displays.