Displaying Regions of User Interest in Sharing Sessions
AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorsHaihua Huang, Jun Xiao, Kang Xiao, Jian Zhang, Yuan Wu, Qian Wang
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Abstract
A meeting server facilitates an online conference session among a presenter device and a plurality of attendee devices, including a display of shared image data from the presenter device. The meeting server receives more than indication, with each indication associated with a corresponding portion of the shared image data displayed on each of the attendee devices. The indications are combined into a message representing user interest in areas of the shared image data, and the message representing interest is transmitted to the presenter device.
Claims24
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- facilitating an online conference session among a presenter device and a plurality of attendee devices, the online conference session including display of shared image data from the presenter device;
- receiving a plurality of indications each associated with a corresponding portion of the shared image data displayed on each of the plurality of attendee devices;
- combining the plurality of indications into a message representing user interest in areas of the shared image data;
- and
- transmitting to the presenter device the message representing interest.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- joining an online conference session among a plurality of attendee devices and a presenter device;
- sharing image data with the plurality of attendee devices from the presenter device in the online conference session;
- receiving a message representing interest in areas of the shared image data;
- and
- displaying the message representing interest in areas of the shared image data.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- joining an online conference session among a plurality of attendee devices and a presenter device, the online conference session including shared image data from the presenter device;
- displaying at least a portion of the shared image data;
- transmitting an indication of the displayed portion of the shared image data;
- and
- receiving a message representing interest in at least one area of the shared image data.
An apparatus comprising:
- a network interface unit configured to communicate data in an online conference session among a plurality of attendee devices and a presenter device;
- a processor configured to:
- share image data from the presenter device in the online conference session;
- receive a plurality of indications via the network interface unit, each indication associated with a corresponding portion of the shared image data displayed on each of the plurality of attendee devices;
- combine the plurality of indications into a message representing user interest in areas of the shared image data;
- and
- cause the message to be transmitted via the network interface unit to the presenter device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.