Remote GUI Containers for Low-Overhead Terminal Display Delivery

The patent extracts the GUI application execution environment from the terminal devices and places it in a containerized environment on the central server. Instead of using full virtual machines with hypervisors, the solution uses lightweight containers that extract only the necessary GUI application components and their dependencies, eliminating the need for complex virtualization infrastructure while maintaining reliable GUI execution.

The patent creates a copy of the GUI application environment in a containerized format that can be executed on the server. Rather than requiring each terminal to have its own virtual machine instance, the same containerized GUI environment is copied and executed on the central server, with display data broadcast to multiple terminals, reducing hardware requirements and infrastructure complexity.

The patent merges multiple terminal GUI execution requirements into a single containerized environment on the central server. Instead of allocating separate virtual machine resources to each terminal, the solution combines all GUI application executions into shared container instances that serve multiple terminals simultaneously, significantly reducing hardware resource consumption while maintaining remote execution capability.

The containerized GUI environment is designed to be universal and multi-functional, capable of serving multiple different terminal devices with varying requirements. The same container infrastructure can execute different GUI applications and serve multiple terminals concurrently, maximizing hardware utilization and reducing overall resource consumption compared to dedicated virtual machines per terminal.

The patent employs disposable, ephemeral container instances for GUI application execution. Each container can be created, executed, and destroyed independently, providing strong security isolation since each container operates in its own isolated filesystem and process namespace. This approach maintains application execution capability while significantly improving security isolation compared to traditional bare-metal or virtual machine deployments, as compromised containers can be easily discarded and replaced.

The patent segments the GUI application environment into isolated container units with separate namespaces for filesystems, processes, and networks. This segmentation provides robust security isolation while maintaining full application execution capability within each container. The segmented architecture allows individual containers to be updated or replaced without affecting other applications, solving the update difficulty problem while preserving productivity.