Maintaining a first session on a first computing device and subsequently connecting to the first session via different computing devices and adapting the first session to conform to the different computing devices system configurations

In a distributed computer system, a computer-implemented method comprising:

• creating a connection with a first computing device, which is being operated by a user;
• assigning a first protocol stack to the first computing device;
• logging on the user;
• establishing a first session for the first computing device;
• configuring the first session to conform to configuration parameters of the first computing device;
• associating the first session with the user;
• ending the connection with the first computing device;
• subsequently creating a connection to a second computing device, which is being operated by the same user;
• assigning a second protocol stack to the second computing device;
• logging on the user;
• detecting the user as being associated with the first session;
• reconfiguring the first session to configuration parameters for the second computing device;
• and
• reassociating the first session with the user by transferring contents of the second protocol stack to the first protocol stack associated with the first session so that the user may continue with the first session while using the second computing device.

In a distributed computer system, a computer-implemented method comprising:

• maintaining a first session at a host computing device for a user who connects to the host computing device via a first computing device, the first session formatting video data for a first display type corresponding to the first computing device;
• subsequently establishing a connection for the user who connects to the host computing device via a second computing device, the second computing device having a second display type that is different than the first computing device;
• recognizing the user as being associated with the first session;
• reconfiguring the first session to format the video data for the second display type corresponding to the second computing device;
• and
• reassociating the connection with the first session.

In a distributed computer system in which a first computing device is connected to communicate with a second computing device via a connection, a computer-implemented method comprising:

• creating a first session for a first user who accesses the second computing device from the first computing device;
• associating the connection with the first session;
• temporarily freezing the first session;
• creating a second session for a second user who connects to the second computing device from the first computing device;
• associating the connection with the second session;
• temporarily freezing the second session;
• and
• subsequently reassociating the connection with the first session.

In a distributed computer system, a computer-implemented method comprising:

• connecting to a remote computing device via a first computing device to establish a session for a user;
• disconnecting from the remote computing device without terminating the session;
• subsequently reconnecting to the remote computing device via a second computing device that is also being used by the user;
• and
• re-establishing the first session for the user.

In a distributed computer system, a computer-implemented method comprising:

• connecting to a remote computing device;
• logging on the user to establish a session with the remote computing device;
• making first configuration parameters available to the remote computing device so that the session can be configured to conform to the first configuration parameters;
• disconnecting from the remote computing device;
• subsequently connecting to the remote computing device;
• logging on the user, whereby the session is reassociated with the user;
• and
• making second configuration parameters available to the remote computing device so that the session can be configured to conform to the second configuration parameters.

In an operating system embodied on a computer-readable medium, wherein the operating system is capable of providing multiple graphical user interface windowing sessions for multiple computing devices, an improvement to the operating system comprising:

• code means for maintaining windowing sessions after computing devices disconnect;
• code means for detecting whether a user, who reconnects through a new computing device, is already affiliated with a previous windowing session;
• code means for adapting the previous windowing session to conform to a system configuration of the new computing device in an event that the system configuration is different from that of a previous computing device through which the user was previously connected;
• and
• code means for reassociating the user with the previous windowing session.

In an operating system embodied on a computer-readable medium, wherein the operating system is capable of facilitating multiple sessions with multiple remote computing devices, an improvement to the operating system comprising:

• first computer readable instructions to recognize when a first user, who is connecting via a remote computing device, is associated with a previous session that the first user started previously;
• second computer readable instructions to reassociate the first user with the previous session;
• the first computer readable instructions further recognizing when a second user, who is connecting via the same remote computing device, is associated with a previous session that the second user started previously;
• and
• the second computer readable instructions further reassociating the second user with the previous session.

A system comprising:

• first code embodied on a computer-readable medium and executed at a first computing device, the first code enabling multiple graphical user interface windowing sessions for multiple clients;
• second code embodied on a computer-readable medium and executed at a second computing device, the second code enabling the second computing device to initiate a connection with the first computing device and to run a local graphical user interface (UI) window;
• and
• the first code being implemented to recognize when a user, who is connecting to the first computing system via the second computing device, is associated with a previous windowing session that the user started previously and to reassociate the user with the previous windowing session, the first code adapting the previous windowing session to conform to any different system configurations of the second computing device in the event that the second computing device is different than a device from which the user originally connected to the first computing device to start the previous windowing session.

A system comprising:

• first code embodied on a computer-readable medium and executed at a first computing device, the first code enabling multiple graphical user interface windowing sessions for multiple computing devices;
• second code embodied on a computer-readable medium and executed at a second computing device, the second code enabling the second computing device to initiate a connection with the first computing device and to run a local graphical window user interface (UI) to the windowing sessions;
• and
• the first code being configured to associate communication to and from the second code with various ones of the windowing sessions so that multiple users can employ the second computing device to operate their own corresponding windowing sessions.