Remote UI Element Remoting for Local Rendering Consistency
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for integrating local and remote computing environments often result in confusing and difficult-to-use user interfaces due to inconsistencies between locally and remotely executed applications, making it challenging to provide a seamless and unified desktop experience.
Innovation Solution
The integration of remote and local applications and desktops is achieved through the remoting of all UI elements to a recipient for generation, presenting them with the receiver's product and OS-specific UI, and returning status back to the sender, while also handling international text and language translation, to create a unified and transparent user interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If applications are executed on the remote computing device, then centralized management and resource utilization are improved, but user interface consistency and ease of operation deteriorate due to integration difficulties between local and remote applications
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism that captures UI elements generated by remote applications and redirects them to the local client for rendering. This mediator layer translates remote UI outputs into local UI formats, allowing centralized execution while maintaining local UI consistency and user experience uniformity across both local and remote applications.
2Productivity
If applications are executed locally to take advantage of processor and memory, then processing speed and productivity are improved, but integration complexity and device complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the computing environment into distinct remote and local components, allowing applications to be executed locally for performance-critical tasks while maintaining a unified UI framework. The segmentation enables independent optimization of execution locations without requiring complex end-to-end integration, as each component operates autonomously with standardized UI interfaces.
3Adaptability or versatility
If UI elements are generated remotely, then centralized control is improved, but network bandwidth consumption and loss of time increase due to transmission requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the UI generation function from the remote execution environment and separates it from the application logic. By capturing UI elements at the source and redirecting them locally, the system eliminates the need to transmit complete UI streams over the network, reducing bandwidth consumption and transmission delays while maintaining centralized application control.
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AI summary
Methods and systems for transparent user interface integration between remote (“published”) applications and their local counterparts are described, providing a seamless, unified user experience, and allowing integration of a start menu, dock, taskbar, desktop shortcuts, windows, window and application switching, system tray elements, client-to-host and host-to-client file type association, URL redirection, browser cookie redirection, token redirection, status message interception and redirection, and other elements. These methods and systems further enhance theme-integration between a client and remote desktop or virtual machine by remoting all UI elements to a recipient for generation, including text controls, buttons, progress bars, radio buttons, list boxes, or other elements; presenting them with the receiver's product and OS-specific UI; and returning status back to the sender. This may achieve a more unified and transparent UI integration. Furthermore, international text may be correctly received in cross-language environments, or translated into the language of the presenting environment.