Display device
AssigneeDisplaylink (UK) Limited
InventorsAndrew John Fisher, Timothy Holroyd Glauert, James Quentin Stafford-Fraser
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Abstract
A display device for transmitting, over a general purpose data network, graphical data to a remote device, the display device comprising a framebuffer memory for storing the graphical data; and a network interface for maintaining two-way network transmission of graphical data to and from the display device and operable to read or write to the framebuffer memory; wherein the network interface transmits the contents of the framebuffer memory to at least one remote device over the network.
Claims12
A display device for transmitting, over a general purpose data network, graphical data to a remote device, the display device comprising:
- framebuffer memory for storing the graphical data;
- and
- a network interface for maintaining two-way network transmission of graphical data to and from the display device and operable to read or write to the framebuffer memory;
- wherein the network interface transmits the contents of the framebuffer memory to at least one remote device over the network.
A method for transmitting graphical data over a general purpose data network to a remote device, where that graphical data is also presented visually on a local display device, the method comprising:
- storing in a framebuffer memory the graphical data for display on a local display device;
- maintaining two-way network transmission of graphical data to and from the display device;
- reading data from the framebuffer memory;
- and
- transmitting the contents of the framebuffer memory to at least one remote device over the network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.