Method and system for providing remote access to a state of an application program

A non-transitory storage medium having stored therein executable commands for execution on a processor of a server computer, the processor when executing the commands providing remote access to an application performed on the server computer to a client computer connected thereto, the processor performing:

• receiving from the client computer a client difference program having encoded data indicative of a change of a state of the application last received from a server computer;
• executing the client difference program for determining an updated state of the application and generating a server difference program having encoded a difference between the updated state of the application and the state of the application last sent to the client computer;
• and,
• transmitting the server difference program to the client computer.

A method of providing remote access to an application program being executed on a server computing device comprising:

• providing a remote connection to the server computing device accessible by a client computing device, the remote connection enabling the remote access to the application program;
• transmitting, by the server computing device, a difference program containing data representing a change in a state of the application made by execution of the application program or the client computing device, the difference program capturing changes in the state of the application program since a last state of the application was received by the server computing device or the client computing device;
• and
• synchronizing, between the server computing device and the client computing device, the change in the state of the application using the difference program.