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Remote collaboration system with multiple host computers using multiple applications

US6047314A · kind A · utility

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20Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 27, 1998
Grant dateApr 4, 2000
Priority date
Expiry dateFeb 27, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L69/329
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • 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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