SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TRACKING AND COMMUNICATING COMPUTING STATES

摘要

The invention relates to a system and method of tracking and communicating computing states of a first computer device for registering said computing states by a second computer device. The first computer device is connected to the second computer device and configured for assuming a plurality of successive computing states. One or more computing states of the first computer device are tracked and communicated to the second computer device. These computing states, including a previous computing state, are assigned to a first set of computing states. The first set of computing states is identified by a first set identifier. When the first computer device returns from a present computing state to the previous computing state, this state transition is detected at the first computer device. In response to detecting the state transition, the first computer device requests and receives a momentary extreme set identifier of a sequence of set identifiers from the second computer device. The first computer device changes the momentary extreme set identifier to a next momentary extreme set identifier of the sequence of set identifiers. Further computing states after the state transition are now assigned to a second set of computing states, which second set is identified by the next momentary extreme set identifier. These further computing states of the second set are communicated to the second computer device under the next momentary extreme set identifier in combination with the first set identifier that is indicative of the parent set of the second set.