Method for tracking displays during a collaboration session and interactive board employing same
AssigneeSMART Technologies ULC
InventorsMin Xin, Michael Boyle, Kathryn Rounding
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Abstract
A method is described for manipulating a view displayed on one or more follower participants' devices to track a view displayed on a lead participant's device. A request to manipulate the view displayed on the one or more follower participant devices is received. The lead participant is identified. The follower participants are identified. A lead view of the lead participant is determined. The lead view is communicated to the follower participants computing devices for display. A computing device and a non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions configured to implement the method are also described.
Claims17
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations for providing a collaboration session between a lead participant's device and one or more follower participant devices, said collaboration session including a canvas shared by lead participant's device and the one or more follower participant devices, wherein the instructions comprise:
- identifying the lead participant;
- determining a lead view of the lead participant;
- identifying at least one of the follower participant devices;
- receiving a request to manipulate a view displayed by the at least one of the follower participant devices;
- in response to the request, communicating the lead view of the lead participant to the at least one of the follower participant devices for display;
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- receiving a release request and communicating the lead view to the follower participant devices at least until the release request is received;
- wherein the lead and follower participants have multiple distinct areas of the canvas in their views.
A computing system having a plurality of participant devices and a computing device that is configured to perform operations for providing a collaboration session between the computing device and the participant devices, said collaboration session including a canvas shared by lead participant's device and the one or more follower participant devices, wherein the operations comprise:
- identifying a lead participant from the plurality of participant devices;
- identifying one or more follower participant devices from the plurality of participant devices;
- determining a lead view of the lead participant;
- receiving a request to manipulate a view displayed on a canvas by at least one of the follower participant devices;
- in response to the request, communicating the lead view of the lead participant to the at least one of the follower participant devices for display;
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- storing a view displayed by one of the follower participant devices and communicating the lead view after the storing;
- wherein the lead and follower participants have multiple distinct areas of the canvas in their views.
A method, comprising:
- identifying one computing device of a plurality of computing devices as a lead participant with a lead view;
- identifying at least one of the computing devices as a follower participant device;
- providing a canvas shared by the lead participant device and the follower participant device;
- receiving a request from the lead participant to manipulate a view displayed on the follower participant device;
- in response to the request to manipulate the view, replacing a current view of the follower participant device with the lead view;
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- storing the current view before replacing the current view with the lead view;
- wherein the lead and follower participants have multiple distinct areas of the canvas in their views.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.