Managing a sharing of media content among client computers

A system for presenting media content on a first client computer of a plurality of client computers that are participating in a collaboration session, the system comprising:

• a memory device of the first client computer of the plurality of client computers participating in the collaboration session;
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• a processing device of the first client computer of the plurality of client computers participating in the collaboration session operatively coupled to the memory device, the processing device to:
• receive the media content from a server;
• present the media content at the first client computer of the plurality of client computers participating in the collaboration session;
• receive a selection of an option that enables annotations on the media content received from the plurality of client computers participating in the collaboration session for real-time display at each of the plurality of client computers participating in the collaboration session;
• send the selected option enabling the annotations on the media content for storage at the server to allow subsequent annotations on the media content to be provided by two or more of the plurality of client computers participating in the collaboration session, wherein each respective annotation is to be formatted for presentation at each of the plurality of client computers participating in the collaboration session and be associated with a user of a corresponding client computer that has provided the respective annotation;
• receive a first annotation and a second annotation, the first annotation provided by a user of a second client computer of the plurality of client computers participating in the collaboration session and the second annotation provided by a user of a third client computer of the plurality of client computers participating in the collaboration session;
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• present, in accordance with the selected option enabling the annotations on the media content, the first and second annotations on the media content at the first client computer of the plurality of client computers participating in the collaboration session, the first and second annotations being presented with identifiers of the second and third client computers respectively.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that when executed cause a processing device to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, at a first client computer of a plurality of client computers participating in a collaboration session, media content from a server;
• presenting the media content at the first client computer of the plurality of client computers participating in the collaboration session;
• receiving, at the first client computer of the plurality of client computers participating in the collaboration session, a selection of an option that enables annotations on the media content received from the plurality of client computers participating in the collaboration session for real-time display at each of the plurality of client computers participating in the collaboration session;
• sending the selected option enabling the annotations on the media content for storage at the server to allow subsequent annotations on the media content to be provided by two or more of the plurality of client computers participating in the collaboration session, wherein each respective annotation is to be formatted for presentation at each of the plurality of client computers participating in the collaboration session and be associated with a user of a corresponding client computer that has provided the respective annotation;
• receiving, at the first client computer of the plurality of client computers participating in the collaboration session, a first annotation and a second annotation, the first annotation provided by a user of a second client computer of the plurality of client computers participating in the collaboration session and the second annotation provided by a user of a third client computer of the plurality of client computers participating in the collaboration session;
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• presenting, in accordance with the selected option enabling the annotations on the media content, the first and second annotations on the media content at the first client computer of the plurality of client computers participating in the collaboration session, the first and second annotations being presented with identifiers of the second and third client computers respectively.