System and method for sharing display screen between information processing apparatuses

Abstract

A system includes a server information processing apparatus having a server function to provide a shared display screen to another information processing apparatus, and a client information processing apparatus having a client function to become a client of the server function, wherein the server function includes a virtual display screen generating unit configured to generate a virtual display screen for accommodating the shared display screen, and a shared display screen acquiring unit configured to acquires image data of at least a portion of the shared display screen displayed on the virtual display screen, and wherein the client function includes a shared display screen receiving unit configured to receive the image data from the server function, and a shared display screen displaying unit configured to display at least a portion of the shared display screen on a shared display screen presenting area in response to the received image data.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.