Information processing system
AssigneesHitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Information Systems, Ltd., Hitachi Microsoftware Systems, Inc.
InventorsShigeyuki Nishitani, Michihiro Mese, Kimiyoshi Ohno, Manabu Sasaki, Tsuneaki Amanuma
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Abstract
An information processing system which includes at least one terminal having input apparatus for inputting data to the system and transmission apparatus for outputting the data inputted from the input apparatus, a display for displaying data, a communication line for transmitting data outputted from the terminal, and a control unit having at least one receiver buffer for storing data transmitted from the terminal via the communication line. The control unit is operable to display the data, which is stored in the receiver buffer, on the display.
Claims19
An information processing system for supporting a conference in which a plurality of participants can meet face to face and view the same data at the same time, comprising:
- (a) a plurality of terminals, each terminal having input means for inputting data to said terminal and transmission means for outputting the data inputted to said terminal by said input means;
- (b) a display for displaying the data, said display being constructed to permit all of the participants in the conference to view the data being displayed on said display at the same time;
- (c) a communication line for transmitting the data outputted from said terminal by said transmission means;
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- (d) a control unit having a plurality of receiver buffers, each receiver buffer stores the data transmitted from one of said terminals via said communication line, said control unit being operable to display the data, which is stored in each of said receiver buffers, on said display at the same time.
An information processing system for supporting a conference in which a plurality of participants can meet face to face and view the same data at the same time, comprising:
- (a) a display for displaying data, said display being constructed to permit all of the participants in the conference to view the data being displayed on said display at the same time;
- (b) a plurality of terminals, each terminal having an input means for inputting data to said terminal, a buffer for temporarily storing the data inputted from said input means, means for instructing transmission of the data stored in said buffer, means for computing, upon receipt of an instruction from said transmission instructing means, display request region information indicating both the size of the data stored in said buffer and the shape of the data displayed on said display, and transmission means for outputting the display request region information upon termination of the computation and for subsequently outputting the data stored in said buffer;
- (c) a communication line for transmitting the data outputted from said terminal;
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- (d) a control unit having means for receiving the display request region information and the data via said communication line from said terminals, means for setting display regions on said display based on the display request region information received by said receiving means, and means for displaying at the same time, in the display regions set by said display region setting means, the data received by said receiving means from said terminals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.