System and Method Providing Session Aware Remote Access

A method of providing remote access to a plurality of sessions at a computer, comprising:

• at the computer:
• initiating a master process in a context independent from the plurality of sessions;
• establishing a respective slave process in a context of each respective session;
• maintaining communication between the master process and the slave process of a respective session of the plurality of sessions currently active at the computer;
• the master process:
• providing access to a display of the computer while the display is under control of a first respective session;
• automatically detecting a change in the currently active session from the first respective session to a second respective session;
• and
• automatically providing access to the display of the computer while the display is under control of the second respective session.

A method of providing remote access to a plurality of sessions at a computer, comprising:

• maintaining session information for the plurality of sessions in a context independent from the plurality of sessions;
• communicating with an active session of the plurality of sessions to provide access to a display of the computer;
• tracking an activation of a next session of the plurality of sessions;
• determining if session information for the next session was maintained;
• if session information for the next session was maintained, switching to communicating with the next session to provide access to the display of the computer;
• and
• if session information for the next session was not maintained, acquiring session information for the next session and switching to communicating with the next session to provide access to the display of the computer.