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System for allowing user of any computer to draw image over that generated by the host computer and replicating the drawn image to other computers

US5649104A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 19, 1993
Grant dateJul 15, 1997
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Expiry dateMar 19, 2013

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L69/329
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The invention concerns using multiple computers to hold a conference. Under the invention, an application program can run on a single computer, yet remote participants can issue commands to the program. Remote participants can watch the program operate, because the invention replicates the display window of the running program onto the displays of the remote computers. Any participant can make annotations on the participant's own computer display. The invention copies the annotations to the displays of the other participants.

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