NETWORK VIRTUAL COMPUTING DEVICES AND FRAMEWORK

摘要

A framework for supporting the display of information includes at least one server; and one or more network virtual computers (NVCs) connected to the at least one server, each NVC also connected to a respective information display device. Each NVC is constructed and adapted to obtain video commands from the at least one server connected thereto, to decode the video commands; and to render information corresponding to the decoded commands on the information display device connected thereto. The commands may be HTML commands and the NVC decodes and renders the HTML commands. The server may include a screen­scraping mechanism to preprocess content, prior to sending it to a connected NVC, by converting the content to a generic file format such as MPEG or AVI.