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Collaboration system for producing copies of image generated by first program on first computer on other computers and annotating the image by second program

US5819038A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 31, 1997
Grant dateOct 6, 1998
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Expiry dateMar 31, 2017

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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