Local Operation of Remotely Executed Applications

A method comprising:

• receiving, at a remote application system and from a user device, data identifying a user event associated with an application managed by the remote application system;
• providing the user event as input to the application;
• providing, to the user device, a user interface generated by the application for presentation on the user device;
• determining that data communication with the user device has become unavailable;
• in response to determining that data communication with the user device has become unavailable, preventing other devices from writing to the application;
• determining that data communication with the user device has been reestablished;
• receiving, from the user device, data identifying user events associated with the application and that were detected by the user device while data communication was not available;
• causing the application to process the user events identified by the data;
• receiving a new user interface from the application;
• and
• providing the new user interface to the user device.

A method comprising:

• during a remote mode of operation for a remote application:
• providing, by a user device and to the remote application system, data identifying user events associated with a remote application managed by the remote application system;
• receiving, by the user device and from the remote application system, user interfaces for the remote application and presenting the user interfaces on a display of the user device;
• receiving a request to switch from the remote mode of operation to a local mode of operation for the remote application;
• and
• in response to receiving the request, switching to the local mode of operation and synchronizing a local version of the application with the remote application, the local version of the application being executed by the user device;
• and
• during the local mode of operation:
• presenting, on the display of the user device, a user interface generated by the local version of the application.

A system, comprising:

• a display
• a data processing apparatus;
• and
• a memory apparatus in data communication with the data processing apparatus and storing instructions executable by the data processing apparatus and that upon such execution cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:
• while data communication is available between the data processing apparatus and a remote application system executing an application:
• providing, to the remote application system, data identifying user events associated with the application;
• receiving, from the remote application system, user interfaces for the application and presenting the user interfaces on the display;
• and
• providing the user events as inputs to a local version of the application executed by the data processing apparatus;
• and
• determining that data communication between the data processing apparatus and the remote application system has become unavailable and, in response:
• presenting, on the display, a user interface generated by the local version of the application;
• detecting one or more subsequent user events associated with the user interface generated by the local version of the application;
• providing the subsequent user events as input to the local version of the application;
• and
• storing data identifying the one or more subsequent user events.