The present invention aims to provide a system that allows multiple users
operating a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) to access the Internet or the
World Wide Web (WWW), and to be able to view and interact with these
images remotely on a display screen. It is a further aim to provide a RDP
(Remote Data Protocol) client and sever system to facilitate multiple PDA
users simultaneously on a single server. The host computer contains an RDP
server which has multiple virtual machines contained within, with each
virtual machine containing a web browser. Multiple RDP clients interact
with the virtual machines with a dedicated virtual machine for each client
on the server. Each client is represented by software, which sends the
display of the virtual machine to a single remote PDA device via a
dedicated modem port. This modem port allows two way communication between
a single PDA and a dedicated virtual machine on the server, via a single
RDP client. By implementing multiple virtual machines and multiple RDP
clients with multiple modem ports, it is now possible to communicate with
multiple users of PDA devices on the RDP. The RDP client relays
information received via a modem port from the PDA, such as mouse clicks
or keyboard commands, to the application program in the virtual machine,
which is then processed and a refreshed display sent back to the PDA via
the same dedicated RDP client and modem port.
