Interaction between devices displaying application status information

A system comprising an impoverished device arranged to display status update information for an active application, the impoverished device comprising:

• a display arranged to display a user interface element representative of dynamic status information for the active application;
• a user input device arranged to receive a user input for an application client associated with the active application and associated with the displayed dynamic status information for the active application;
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• a controller configured to generate a trigger signal based on the received user input for the application client;
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• a communication interface arranged to transmit the trigger signal to a separate computing device, wherein the trigger signal is arranged to cause launching of the application client for the active application on the separate computing device and to provide the user input to the launched application client, wherein the application client for the active application is arranged to interact with the active application at a cloud-based application service based on the user input.

A method comprising:

• receiving a trigger signal from an impoverished device, the trigger signal identifying a user interaction with a user interface element displayed at the impoverished device and representative of dynamic status information associated with an active application, the impoverished device being attached to a docking station and the user interaction being a user input for an application client associated with the active application;
• selecting a master computing device from a set of candidate computing devices;
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• transmitting the trigger signal to the master computing device, wherein the trigger signal is arranged to cause launching of the application client for the active application on the master computing device and to provide the user input to the launched application client, wherein the application client for the active application is arranged to interact with the active application at a cloud-based application service based on the user input.