Method and server apparatus for dynamically identifying pop-out links in networked applications via lookup

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• providing a server computing device configured to run a Remoting Engine Server hosting a remote graphical computer desktop, remote graphical application window, or remote graphical windowing user session;
• providing a client computing device configured to run a Remoting Engine Client that runs on a user agent to request and render content at a given URI;
• establishing a remote graphical computer desktop, remote graphical application window, or remote graphical windowing user session between the Remoting Engine Client and the Remoting Engine Server wherein the established remote graphical computer desktop, remote graphical application window, or remote graphical windowing user session is displayed to a user within a top level container of the Remoting Engine Client running on the user agent;
• receiving, by the Remoting Engine Server, any navigational action, by the Remoting Engine Client that is browsing the established remote graphical computer desktop, remote graphical application window, or remote graphical windowing user session, on any link;
• in response to the any navigational action, extracting, on the Remote Engine Server, values from the link in the request, corresponding to domain and any URI components that comprise a URI;
• sending, by the Remote Engine Server a request for information to a lookup server wherein the request includes the extracted domain and the any extracted URI components of the link;
• looking up information in a Lookup Server registry using the extracted domain and the any extracted URI components;
• receiving, by the Remoting Engine Server, from the Lookup server, a response with a payload of data representing requested information, indicating that the link is a pop-out link;
• sending, by the Remoting Engine Server, a directive to the Remoting Engine Client running on a user agent to reload the Remoting Engine Client's top level container with content provided at the pop-out link's destination URI.

A server apparatus comprising at least one processor configured to run a Remoting Engine hosting a remote graphical computer desktop, remote graphical application window, or remote graphical windowing user session, the at least one processor configured to perform:

• establishing a remote graphical computer desktop, remote graphical application window, or remote graphical windowing user session between the server apparatus and a client computing device configured to run a Remoting Engine client that runs on a user agent to request and render content at a given URL, wherein the established remote graphical computer desktop, remote graphical application window, or remote graphical windowing user session is displayed to a user within a top level container of the Remoting Engine Client running on the user agent;
• receiving, by the Remoting Engine Server, any navigational action, by the Remoting Engine Client that is browsing the established remote graphical computer desktop, remote graphical application window, or remote graphical windowing user session, on any link;
• sending, by the Remote Engine Server a request for information to a lookup server wherein the request includes domain and any URI components of the link;
• receiving, by the Remoting Engine Server, from the Lookup server, a response with a payload of data representing requested information from a Lookup Server looked up using the domain and the any URI components, indicating that the link is a pop-out link;
• sending, by the Remoting Engine Server, a directive to the Remoting Engine Client running on a user agent to reload the Remoting Engine Client's top level container with content provided at the pop-out link's destination URI.