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US 2006/0148527 A1Published application
Mobile graphics device and server
OwnerAlan Blountinventor
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A mobile graphics display device comprises a touch sensitive display screen coupled to a touch screen processor. The touch screen processor is operable to generate first ink data representative of an input drawing action applied to the touch sensitive display screen. The device includes a graphics display and a graphics image processor operable to display images representative of at least the first ink data on the graphics display screen in combination with hand drawn images which may have already been created. A wireless communications processor is operable to communicate the first ink data from the mobile graphics display device to another graphics display device, and to receive other ink data from the other graphics display device, the other ink data being representative of other drawing action. The graphics display processor is operable to generate a representation of the other ink data with respect to the representation of the first ink data according to a common reference. The mobile graphics display device is thereby arranged to exchange hand drawn images with another device.
A mobile graphics display device, comprising
A mobile graphics display device as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein the data processor is operable to compression encode the ink data.
A mobile graphics display device as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein the wireless communications processor is operable in accordance with a wireless mobile radio communications interface to send and receive data via a radio access interface in accordance with the interface.
A mobile graphics display device as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein the data processor is responsive to an indication from the touch screen to communicate image data via the wireless communications processor to the other graphics display device.
A server plug-in operable in combination with an instant messaging server and a data store, the plug-in being operable to receive ink data from a plurality of sources and to store the ink in the data store in association with a common reference space, to maintain connection information in association with the ink data stored in the data store, the connection information including a list of graphics display devices associated in accordance with a defined group to identify presence information in accordance with whether one or more of the predefined group of devices is available to exchange ink data, and consequent upon one or more devices being identified, to communicate ink data from a device from the group to any of the other graphics display devices of the group which are identified as being present.
A method of exchanging hand drawn data, the method comprising
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.