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User interface for a video conferencing system

US6025871A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 31, 1998
Grant dateFeb 15, 2000
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Expiry dateDec 31, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F3/147
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Method and apparatus for video conferencing provides for automatically managing user views to provide ready, video only, full screen video, video with document not shared, and video with shared document views. Several different automatically managed user-interfaces for a dual monitor system provide, among other things, that the second monitor can be used for local video image only, used for all functions except shared applications, or to display shared applications.

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