US 2013/0086166 A1 · MEETING SYSTEM THAT INTERCONNECTS GROUP AND PERSONAL DEVICES ACROSS A NETWORK

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for hosting collaboration between multiple clients. The system includes a network interface able to communicate with clients, and a control unit. The control unit is able to receive a screen capture that represents visual content at a display of a client, to identify multiple clients for receiving the screen capture, and to transmit the screen capture to the multiple clients for presentation at displays of the multiple clients. The control unit is further able to receive instructions in parallel from the multiple clients representing marks made upon the screen capture, and to transmit the instructions in parallel to the multiple clients to apply the marks onto the screen capture as presented at the displays of the multiple clients.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a server that includes:
a network interface operable to communicate with clients;
and
a control unit operable to share visual content between the clients for presentation at displays of the clients,
the control unit further operable to receive instructions for marking upon the visual content, to distribute the instructions to the clients, to store information indicating an undo and redo state of prior instructions applied to the visual content, and to facilitate undo commands relating to the visual content based upon the stored undo and redo state.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/412,443Filed 5 Mar 2012

Priority

4 Oct 2011

Published

4 Apr 2013

Term ends

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Classification11 codes

H04N 21/4788
Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application: communicating with other users, e.g. chatting
G06F 3/04883
Using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures: for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
G06F 40/169
Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting: annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
H04N 7/15
Systems for two-way working: conference systems

Family

Application61/543,072Us provisional application · filed 4 Oct 2011

Application13/411,259Continuation · filed 2 Mar 2012

Application13/412,443Continuation

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Meeting system that interconnects group and personal devices across a network

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Meeting system that interconnects group and personal devices across a network

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Abstract

Claims17