Method and system for portably enabling awareness, touring, and conferencing over the world-wide web using proxies and shared-state servers
US5861883A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | May 13, 1997 |
| Grant date | Jan 19, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 13, 2017 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2216/15
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Collaboration capabilities (both "push" and "pull" of information) are portably added to World-Wide Web content. In particular, a persistent connection is maintained to a shared state server for retrieving data via a "push" mechanism which maintains the freedom to access arbitrary Web content via the "pull" mechanism. Moreover, the collaboration is provided in a portable manner, in the same way that all other Web content is portable both across hardware platforms and across browser implementations.
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