Abstract: A processing system may include a display device, a primary window manager, and an auxiliary window manager. The primary window manager may display a first remote-enabled window in the display device. The processing system may also include a program to generate a mouse-enabled window, and the primary window manager may prevent the mouse-enabled window from displaying in front of the first remote-enabled window. The auxiliary window manager may detect an attempt to display the mouse-enabled window, and, in response, may automatically display a second remote-enabled window in front of the first remote-enabled window. The second remote-enabled window may include an object that a user can select with a remote control to instruct the processing system to display the mouse-enabled window. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: Computing devices in a network offer network services by transmitting and receiving network service packets. In one embodiment, the packet includes a network service rank and a network service code. Each computing device within the network receives a transmitted packet and validates the accompanying service code. If the service code is validated, the packet's accompanying offered network service's rank is evaluated against an existing network service's rank. If the offered network service's rank is greater than the existing network service's rank, then an existing network service is disabled, and the network service identified by the received packet is installed. Further, each computing device periodically transmits to the remaining computing devices a packet identifying the transmitting computing device's offered network service's rank and the transmitting computing device's service code.