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

An apparatus for remote access to an application program executing on a server computer, comprising:

• a server remote access program that provides the remote access to the application program and executes on the server computer, the server remote access program being in communication with the application program, generating a server difference program that contains encoded data indicative of a change in a state of the application program, and communicating the server difference program from the server remote access program to a client remote access program that executes the server difference program to synchronize the state of the application at both the server computer and a client computer;
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• the client remote access program that provides the remote access to the application program and executes on the client computer, the client remote access program remotely accessing the application program by establishing a communication connection with the server remote access program, generating a client difference program that contains encoded data indicative of a change in a state of the application program, and communicating the client difference program from the client remote access program to the server remote access program that executes the client difference program to synchronize the state of the application at both the client computer and the server computer,
• wherein the server difference program and the client difference program each only capturing changes in the state of the application program since the state of the application was last received by the server computer and the client computer, respectively.