Seamless movement between phone and PC with regard to applications, display, information transfer or swapping active device

摘要

It would be beneficial to allow one or more of information, applications, desktops, and in general any information to be shared between a computer and a communications device. For example, it would be useful to be able to move a presentation from a computer to a mobile communications device. Some solutions attempt to address this by requiring a user to load the information on a laptop, USB key, burn it to an optical disk or the like, and then “open” the information on another device located at the remote destination. In one embodiment, through the use of one or more of virtualization and content translation, any information and/or applications can be exchanged between a computer and a communications device. More specifically, one embodiment utilizes metadata in conjunction with a virtualization environment to allow the exchange of information and/or applications between a personal computer and a communications device, or vice versa.

主权项

1. A method for exchanging information between a computing device and a communications device comprising:
detecting a request for sharing of one or more of information, applications, and data, wherein the one or more of information, applications, and data are an appliance; advertising a desktop sharing service; discovering another desktop sharing service; bundling the appliance with an operating system image for management by a hypervisor on a remote desktop; attaching to the remote desktop, the remote desktop being provided as an extension to the communication device's desktop or the computing device's desktop; downloading the bundled appliance and operating system image to the another desktop sharing service; installing the downloaded appliance and the operating system image into a temporary container; validating, by the hypervisor, the installed appliance and the operating system image in the temporary container; and in response to validating the installed appliance and the operating system image in the temporary container, deploying, by the hypervisor, the installed appliance and the operating system image in an appliance container.