| 摘要 |
A touch-screen mobile phone 3 acts as a control device for a software application 67 hosted on a server 5 on behalf of a "thin" or "slim" (ie. low processing power) client device 7 (eg. a television or ) during a thin client session. The mobile device first registers with the server as a controller (41, 61) and indicates its input capabilities in order to be matched in a configuration database 69, after which the control events input by the user 40 are handled by the server (60, 63) in order to visually interact with the main output of the application 83 on the client device screen. The input configuration can be dynamically updated according to virtual dials, buttons or faders etc. (92, fig. 7) to switch from eg. "keyboard" mode to "camera" mode, and the software may be eg. a word processor, a computer game or an audio mixing tool. Numerous mobile controllers (eg. Smartphones, PDAs or laptops) can connect to the server via eg. Bluetooth, WiFi or USB protocols.
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