System and method for selective communication
AssigneeMetatellus OÜ
InventorJuha Olavi Korhonen
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Abstract
A system and method for enhanced communication among a multitude of users by enabling each user to augment theirs' and others' screens for a limited amount of time is set out. The augmentation may be limited only by the user's imagination and ability to create a drawable entity using gestures via a touch sensitive surface, mouse or the like. A time limit may be associated with the drawable entity in order to affect its fading and ultimate disappearance from the screen. The time limit may vary as well as be conditioned upon the message or meaning or type of drawable entity being communicated.
Claims20
A computer-implemented process for communicating among a plurality of clients subscribing to common live feeds, each of the feeds comprising video channel and data track, and each of the clients comprising a video layer for displaying the video channel, a draw layer for displaying a drawable entity and a user interface layer for detecting an inputted gesture and storing it as a drawable entity, the process comprising:
- receiving a request for conversation from a first client of the plurality of clients, identifying a conversation room associated with the request;
- locating a second client of the plurality of clients, the second client associated with the conversation room;
- setting up a call in the conversation room between the first client and the second client;
- detecting the gesture on the user interface layer creating a drawable entity based on the parameters of the gesture
- displaying the drawable entity on the draw layer
- transmitting the drawable entity through the data track from a first client of the plurality of clients to at least one second client of the plurality of clients;
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- displaying the drawable entity on the draw layer of the at least one second client of the plurality of clients.
A system for communicating among a plurality of clients subscribing to common live feeds, each of the feeds comprising video channel and data track, and each of the clients comprising a video layer for displaying the video channel, a draw layer for displaying a drawable entity and a user interface layer for detecting an inputted gesture and storing it as a drawable entity, the process comprising:
- means for receiving a request for conversation from a first client of the plurality of clients,
- means for identifying a conversation room associated with the request;
- means for locating a second client of the plurality of clients, the second client associated with the conversation room;
- means for setting up a call in the conversation room between the first client and the second client;
- means for detecting the gesture on the user interface layer
- means for creating a drawable entity based on the parameters of the gesture
- means for displaying the drawable entity on the draw layer
- means for transmitting the drawable entity through the data track from a first client of the plurality of clients to at least one second client of the plurality of clients;
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- means for displaying the drawable entity on the draw layer of the at least one second client of the plurality of clients.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.