Virtual Desktop Mouse Pointer for Tablet Remote App Interaction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Tablet computing devices often struggle to interact with remote applications designed for mouse-based interfaces, as they typically lack a mouse pointer and mouse input capabilities, limiting user interaction with such applications.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that display a virtual desktop on a tablet computing device, including a mouse pointer, allowing users to interact with remote applications by simulating mouse input through a virtual trackpad or external device, enabling the execution and display of remote applications within a native desktop environment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a tablet computing device uses a touch screen interface paradigm, then the device is optimized for touch-based interaction and portability, but the device cannot properly interact with remote applications designed for mouse-based interfaces
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a virtual desktop environment as an intermediary layer between the touch screen interface and remote mouse-based applications. This virtual desktop includes a virtual mouse pointer and virtual trackpad that translate touch screen gestures into mouse-like interactions, enabling tablet users to access and interact with remote applications designed for traditional mouse-based systems without requiring the tablet to natively support mouse input
2Adaptability or versatility
If remote applications are displayed within the native desktop environment of a tablet, then the applications can be accessed, but the lack of a mouse pointer prevents proper interaction with application interface elements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of a mouse pointer and trackpad within the tablet's native desktop environment. This virtual mouse pointer is rendered and displayed within the virtual desktop, and virtual trackpad gestures are captured and translated into mouse pointer movements and clicks. This copying approach allows remote applications to be executed and interacted with using familiar mouse-based paradigms while running on a touch screen device
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AI summary
Virtual desktops generated by a virtual desktop application locally executing on a tablet computing device, can further display remote applications. The tablet computing device executes an operating system that does not contemplate a mouse pointer and that displays a native desktop. In many instances, the virtual desktop is displayed on the tablet computing device such that the virtual desktop appears to be the native desktop. The virtual desktops therefore include a mouse pointer which can be used to interact with the remote applications. The remote applications generate graphical application output when they execute on a remote server. The graphical application output is transmitted to the tablet computing device and displayed in an application output window displayed within the virtual desktop. Using a virtual trackpad or other virtual input device, a user can interact with the remote applications via the application output displayed on the virtual desktop.