Remote Desktop Monitoring via Scaled Image Transmission
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional methods for monitoring multiple virtual machine desktops are costly, space-intensive, and limited by network bandwidth, especially when trying to display dynamic content on a user interface of a computing device.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that maintain image data for graphical user interfaces of remote desktops, preparing and transmitting scaled, lower-resolution images to a wireless device for display, optimizing network bandwidth usage and reducing physical resource requirements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a wall of monitors is used to monitor multiple virtual machine desktops, then monitoring capability is improved, but cost and physical space requirements increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from physical spatial arrangement (wall of monitors) to digital virtual arrangement (multiple desktops displayed on a single device screen). Multiple remote desktops are composited into a single unified interface that can be viewed on one display device, eliminating the need for multiple physical monitors while maintaining full monitoring capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates digital copies of multiple remote desktop interfaces and composite them into a single unified display. Instead of requiring physical copies of multiple monitor devices, the patent generates virtual copies of desktop interfaces that are rendered together on one screen, reducing physical space while preserving monitoring functionality.
2Measurement precision
If full-resolution desktop images are transmitted over the network, then image quality is improved, but network bandwidth consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies different quality levels to different regions or portions of the composite desktop display. Instead of transmitting full-resolution images for all desktops uniformly, the system optimizes image quality locally - transmitting higher resolution for active or important desktops and lower resolution for inactive ones, thereby reducing overall network bandwidth consumption while maintaining acceptable image quality where needed.
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AI summary
Methods and systems configured to facilitate monitoring of multiple remote desktops in a user interface of a wireless device are provided. One example method includes maintaining image data representing a prior state of graphical displays of a plurality of graphical user interfaces associated with the remote desktops, in response to receiving a first request specifying first display information from the wireless device, preparing first update information for a first scaled image corresponding to content of a first graphical display, wherein the first scaled image contains image data defining a lower resolution version of a current state of a first graphical display out of the graphical displays, the scaled version is being sized according to the first display information received from the wireless device, and transmitting the prepared first update information to the wireless device to be displayed in the user interface.