Mechanism for allowing a number of split-screens to share a display on a client device beyond an application's native capacity for split-screening

A computer program product embodied on a computer readable medium, the computer readable medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which, when executed by a processor causes the processor to execute a method for allowing a number of split-screens to share a display on a client device beyond an application's native capacity for split-screening, comprising:

• determining configuration parameters for the client device;
• establishing a plurality of application instances to be initialized based on the number of split-screens and the application's native capacity for split-screening;
• initializing one or more virtual machine servers to service the plurality of application instances;
• optimizing display output parameters for each application instance based at least in part on the configuration parameters for the client device;
• outputting display from each application instance to the client device, such that the display output from each application instance shares the display on the client device.

A system for allowing a number of split-screens to share a display on a client device beyond an application's native capacity for split-screening, comprising:

• a data center comprising:
• hardware resources;
• a virtual machine monitor functionally connected to the hardware resources;
• a virtual machine server functionally connected to the virtual machine monitor, wherein the virtual machine server executes a plurality of instances of the application;
• wherein the data center:
• optimizes the display output parameters of each application instance;
• and
• outputs the display from each application instance to the client device, such that the display output from each application instance shares the display on the client device.