US Patent 11237854 Providing a virtual desktop within a computing environment

A technique provides a virtual desktop. The technique involves receiving device identification information via a browser operating on display equipment. The device identification information identifies a mobile computing device. The technique further involves creating a communications pathway between the display equipment and the mobile computing device based on the device identification information. The technique further involves, while the mobile computing device runs a virtual desktop session that conveys virtual desktop input from the mobile computing device to a virtual desktop server and virtual desktop output from the virtual desktop server to the mobile computing device to provide a virtual desktop on the mobile computing device, communicating over the communications pathway created between the display equipment and the mobile computing device to cast the virtual desktop from the mobile computing device to the browser operating on the display equipment.