Patent ID: 7870496

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a display operable to display a local image defined relative to local image space coordinates; a touchscreen interface positioned over the display, the touchscreen interface operable to register and track one or more touch events occurring over the touchscreen interface; one or more processors; and one or more computer-readable tangible media encoding one or more instructions that, when executed collectively by the processors: establish a remote network computing (RNC) session with a host computer system over a network; transmit, to the host computer system, touch event information associated with touch events; receive, from the host computer system, graphical display information corresponding to a host image associated with the host computer system, the host image being defined relative to host image space coordinates, the graphical display information being received in host image space coordinates; translate the graphical display information from host image space coordinates to local image space coordinates; update the local image based on the graphical display information, the local image comprising a selected portion of the host image; and in response to mouse movement events caused by associated touch events, change the selected portion of the host image while keeping a cursor displayed on the display in the center of the display.