Microsoft patents smoother monitor setup for remote desktops
This filing describes a method for managing screen settings when using a remote desktop connection. It uses a specific data channel to send updated monitor information from your local computer to the remote server in real-time.
In the filing’s own words
Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for facilitating implementation of efficient management of monitor configuration data in a remote desktop environment. In embodiments, a dynamic virtual channel established between a remote desktop client device and a remote desktop server is used to provide a global set of monitor configuration data for a remote desktop session. Thereafter, at the remote desktop client device, an updated set of monitor configuration data is identified during the remote desktop session. The updated set of monitor configuration data for the remote desktop session is provided to the remote desktop server via the dynamic virtual channel.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computing system comprising: a processor; and computer storage memory having computer-executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the processor, configure the computing system to perform operations comprising: providing, via a dynamic virtual channel established between a remote desktop client device and a remote desktop server, a global set of monitor configuration data for a remote desktop session; identifying, at the remote desktop client device, an updated set of monitor configuration data during the remote desktop session; and providing, via the dynamic virtual channel, the updated set of monitor configuration data for the remote desktop session.
Facts
- Company
- Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
- Official title
- EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT OF MONITOR CONFIGURATION DATA IN A REMOTE DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT
- Publication number
- US20260277525A1
- Application number
- 19080700
- Filed
- Mar 14, 2025
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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