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US 2011/0087973 A1Published application
Distributed system and method for management of multiple users and workspaces
AssigneeSMART Technologies ULC
InventorsDAVID MARTIN, Shymmon Banerjee, Andrew Leung, Umar Farooq, Paul Vanetti, Douglas Hill
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Abstract
A distributed system for managing users and workspaces comprises a network cloud comprising at least one server configured to store and run at least one application and at least one meeting appliance configured to communicate with the network cloud, to run the at least one application on the network cloud, and to display output of the at least application on the meeting appliance.
Claims25
A distributed system for managing users and workspaces comprising:
- a network cloud comprising at least one server configured to store and run at least one application;
- and
- at least one meeting appliance configured to communicate with the network cloud, to run the at least one application on the network cloud, and to display output of the at least application on the meeting appliance.
A method comprising:
- sending a message from at least one meeting appliance to a network cloud;
- executing the at least one application on the network cloud in response to the received message;
- sending graphical output of the at least one application from the network cloud to the at least one meeting appliance;
- and
- displaying the graphical output on the at least one meeting appliance.
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A meeting appliance comprising:
- a display;
- a processor;
- and
- memory storing program code, the processor communicating with the memory and executing the program code to cause the meeting application to:
- communicate with a network cloud, to run at least one application on the network cloud, and to present output of the at least application on the display.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.