公开(公告)号：US11734032B1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-22

申请号：US17744637

申请日：2022-05-14

Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Inventor： Christiaan Brinkhoff ,  Sandeep Patnaik ,  Jinhua Fei ,  Prasanna Padmanabhan ,  Randall Cook ,  Matthew Shadbolt ,  Roland Radtke ,  John Christopher Whytock ,  Gary Liao ,  Alexander Ryan Fromm ,  Parthasarathy Sundararajan

IPC: G06F3/0481 ,  G06F9/451

CPC classification number: G06F9/452 ,  G06F3/0481

Abstract: A desktop switcher provides equally convenient user interface navigational access to remote virtual desktops as to local virtual desktops for reliable and convenient human-computer interaction. Underlying mechanisms transparently confirm remote computer availability and compatibility, transfer thumbnails between computers, and support remoting sessions. Virtual desktops may share a clipboard, a geographic location setting, and application thumbnails, despite being based on computers that are remote from one another, e.g., when only one of a session's computers resides in a cloud. Virtual desktop context menus may be shown and utilized remotely. A visual separator in the desktop switcher may distinguish local virtual desktops from remote virtual desktops.