Abstract: In one embodiment a computing system comprises one or more processors, a display device coupled to the computing system, and a memory module communicatively connected to the one or more processors. The memory module comprises logic to receive, in a connection server, a service request from a user via a remote connection client, wherein the service request comprises at least one of a user credential, a connection client identifier, and a layout identifier, authenticate, in the connection server, the user credential and the connection client identifier, retrieve, in the connection server, a user profile associated with the user, a connection client layout associated with the layout identifier, connection data for at least one remote system, and a policy associated with the user profile, and transmit the user profile, the connection client layout, a remote system and the connection data for a remote system and a policy associated with the user profile from the connection server to the remote connection client.

Abstract: In one embodiment a computing system comprises one or more processors, a display device coupled to the computing system, a connection client module, at least one remote access client module, a memory module communicatively connected to the one or more processors and comprising logic to; receive a service request from a user via a remote connection client coupled to the connection server, wherein the service request comprises at least one user credential, authenticate the at least one user credential, retrieve at least one user profile associated with the user, connection data for at least one remote system and at least one policy associated with the at least one user profile, transmit the at least one user profile, at least one remote system and the connection data for at least one remote system and at least one policy associated with the at least one user profile from the connection server to the remote connection client.

Abstract: A graphics adapter comprises a frame buffer operable to store graphics image data. The graphics adapter also comprises a network interface operable to receive at least a portion of the graphics image data, the network interface further operable to format the received graphics image data into a plurality of packets for transmission over a communication network.

Abstract: A method for indicating stale data whereby a receiving system receives images and sync messages from a sending system and computes a time difference between a current time and a time a last sync message was received from the sending system. If such a time difference meets or exceeds a first threshold, the an alert is generated.

Abstract: A method for providing secure access to network secure logical storage partitions is disclosed. The method comprises automatically associating at least one of a plurality of secure logical storage partitions in a storage device in a network with at least one of a plurality of uniquely identified servers in a cell in the network in response to a request for storage over the network. The method also comprises automatically associating the cell with at least one client using network isolation of the cell, and using network isolation of the storage device to restrict access to at least one of the plurality of secure logical storage partitions to the one of the plurality of uniquely identified servers in the cell. In a particular embodiment, the method also comprises determining whether storage capacity is available for the at least one client in response to the request, and automatically creating the cell if the cell does not already exist.

Abstract: A method comprises storing pixel data in a frame buffer, retrieving the pixel data from the frame buffer and processing at least one pixel value of the pixel data to generate an output pixel bit stream. The method further comprises storing pixel values in a first update buffer. The pixel values are derived from the output pixel bit stream. The method also comprises providing the pixel values from the first update buffer across a network to a remote graphics system.

Abstract: A graphics adapter comprises a frame buffer operable to store graphics image data. The graphics adapter also comprises a network interface operable to receive at least a portion of the graphics image data, the network interface further operable to format the received graphics image data into a plurality of packets for transmission over a communication network.

Abstract: A graphics adapter comprises a frame buffer operable to store graphics image data. The graphics adapter also comprises a network interface operable to receive at least a portion of the graphics image data, the network interface further operable to format the received graphics image data into a plurality of packets for transmission over a communication network.

Abstract: A method comprises providing image copy and modify commands to a receiver. Each copy command causes pixel values in an area of a display associated with the receiver to be copied to another area of the display and each modify command causes at least one pixel value in an area of the display to be modified. The method further comprises generating a future copy region if a future copy command that is providable to the receiver is encountered. The future copy region defines one or more rectangles of pixels on the display that are copyable in the future on the display associated with the receiver. The method also comprises using the future copy region to avoid sending a future copy command to the receiver that will copy pixel values that are to be modified on a display associated with a sending system.

Abstract: Methods and systems for user selection of a remote session are described herein. At least some illustrative embodiments comprise a method that comprises presenting display information to a user (while in a first windowing mode) from a first remote session before entering a setup mode and from a second remote session after exiting the setup mode, entering the setup mode and selecting (by the user) the second remote session while continuing to present the display information from the first remote session without changing to a second windowing mode, and preventing contemporaneous presenting of display information from both the first and the second remote sessions while not in the setup mode.

Abstract: Methods and systems for selecting a remote session audio stream sent to a receiving station from one of a plurality of sending stations are described herein. At least some illustrative embodiments comprise a method that comprises receiving a message comprising audio data at a receiving station (the audio data representing at least part of an audio stream associated with a first remote session established between the receiving station and a first sending station of a plurality of sending stations), and selecting the audio stream and presenting the audio data as audio to a user of the receiving station if the audio stream is enabled.

Abstract: A method is disclosed that comprises a control program receiving a notification control request from a user (the notification control request specifying whether to enable or disable the generation of notifications by a first user application program); identifying a software interface associated with the first user application program and used to enable and disable the generation of notifications by the first user application program; and using the identified software interface and based upon the control request received (selectively enabling and disabling generation of notifications by the first user application program).

Abstract: A method is described that comprises a receiving station determining whether at least one sending station (coupled to the receiving station in a peer-to-peer configuration) meets a filtering criterion, and establishing a remote session between the receiving station and a sending station for which the filtering criterion is met.

Abstract: A method comprises a receiving system establishing a first connection to a sending system. The method also comprises determining whether the sending system is in an unauthenticated mutually exclusive connection (UMEC) state. The method further comprises foregoing collecting user credentials to establish a connection between the receiving and sending systems if the sending system is in the UMEC state, and collecting user credentials to establish a connection between the receiving and sending systems if the sending system is not in the UMEC state.

Abstract: A method comprises determining whether settings associated with a plurality of devices coupled to a client computer are provided in the client computer. The client computer is adapted to be coupled to a plurality of remote computer. If the settings are provided in the client computer, the method further comprises determining to which of the remote computers each device is to be associated, and operatively associating each device to the particular remote computer to which that device is determined to be associated. As a result, multiple devices can be concurrently associated with remote computers.

Abstract: A method comprises receiving, by a first system, from a second system a display resolution of the second system. The first and second systems are remotely coupled to one another via a network. The method further comprises, either setting, by the first system, the display resolution of the first system to match the received display resolution of the second system or scaling, by the first system, an image to account for any difference between the display resolutions or display window sizes of the first and second systems.

Abstract: A method comprises a receiving system computing a time difference between a current time and a time that a last sync message was received from a sending system. If such a time difference meets or exceeds a first threshold, the method further comprises generating an alert (e.g., visual alert, audible alert, etc.).

Abstract: A method comprises a receiving system receiving display properties of a display coupled to the receiving system. The receiving system is operatively coupled to a sending system. The method further comprises transmitting the display properties to the sending system and informing an operating system running on the sending system of the display properties.

Abstract: A frame-grabbing system in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises a frame buffer, a graphics adapter, video output interface and logic. The graphics adapter is configured to receive graphics commands from a graphics application and to render graphical data from the graphics commands to the frame buffer. The video output interface is configured to read the frame buffer and to transmit a video data signal based on graphical data stored in the frame buffer. The logic is configured to perform, in response to a frame grab request, a frame grab of an image frame based on the video data signal, the frame defined by the graphical data stored in the frame buffer. The logic is further configured to prevent, in response to the frame grab request, the graphics adapter from updating the frame buffer during the frame grab.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method are provided for performing network routing. The present invention comprises authentication logic, decision logic and routing logic. The authentication logic is configured to receive packets sent from a source agent to a tunnel endpoint and to determine whether or not the security association corresponds to the source agent that configured the tunnel. The decision logic makes a routing decision that is constrained based on the security association of an authenticated. The routing logic then selects a routing destination for the authenticated packet that is based at least partially on the routing decision made by the decision.