US 2015/0089395 A1 · ELECTRONIC TOOL AND METHODS FOR MEETINGS

Abstract

An electronic meeting tool and method for communicating arbitrary media content from users at a meeting comprises a node configuration means adapted to operate a display node of a communications network, the display node being coupled to a first display. The node configuration means is adapted to receive user selected arbitrary media content and to control display of the user selected arbitrary media content on the first display. A peripheral device adapted to communicate the user selected arbitrary media content via the communications network is a connection unit comprising a connector adapted to couple to a port of a processing device having a second display, a memory and an operating system, and a transmitter. A program is adapted to obtain user selected arbitrary media content, said program leaving a zero footprint on termination. The user may trigger transfer of said user selected arbitrary media content to said transmitter.

Claims21

Dependent claims

1-81. (canceled)

A method for displaying images on a plurality of display devices, the method comprising:

coupling processing devices to at least one communications network, each processing device having a memory and a display,
transmitting image data from the processing devices to the plurality of display devices via the at least one communications network, the step of transmitting being adapted to:
retain an aspect ratio of each image displayed on each processing device;
optionally remove borders left/right or top/bottom of each image and in addition
provide appropriate scaling, side by side or on-top positioning and optionally spreading of the images to be displayed on the plurality of display devices in a non-overlapping manner while taking into account any of the display resolution, pixel density, aspect ratio and orientation of each display device, the topological arrangement of images on all display devices being the same.

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A system for displaying images on a plurality of display devices, the system comprising:

means for coupling processing devices to at least one communications network, each processing device having a memory and a display,
means for transmitting image data from the processing devices to the plurality of display devices via the at least one communications network, the means for transmitting being adapted to:
retain an aspect ratio of each image displayed on each processing device;
optionally remove borders left/right or top/bottom of each image and in addition
provide appropriate scaling, side by side or on-lop positioning and optionally spreading of the images to be displayed on the plurality of display devices in a non-overlapping manner while taking into account any of the display resolution, pixel density, aspect ratio and orientation of each display device, the topological arrangement of images on all display devices being the same.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/344,830Filed 14 Sep 2012

Priority

14 Sep 2011

Published

26 Mar 2015

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

H04L 12/1822
For computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms: conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants,…
H04L 65/4025
Wherein the services involve a main real-time session and one or more additional parallel non-real time sessions, e.g. downloading a file in a…:…
H04L 65/4038
Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences: with floor control
H04N 7/15
Systems for two-way working: conference systems

Family

Application61/534,592Us provisional application · filed 14 Sep 2011

Application13/270,659Continuation in part · filed 11 Oct 2011

Application61/635,231Us provisional application · filed 18 Apr 2012

Application14/344,830Continuation in part

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