Personal conferencing system
US6151621A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 19, 1998 |
| Grant date | Nov 21, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 19, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q10/10
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
There is described a personal conferencing method and system for a client (32)/server (30) environment. The server (30) stores conference model data (60) such as a shared chalkboard or a molecular model and each client has a copy of the conference model data (61). When one of said clients (32A, 32B, 32C) edits the model (61) it creates an instruction (64A) for operating on the model and sends the instruction (64A) to the server (30). The server (30) operates (62) on its conference model data (60) on receipt of the instruction (64A) and resends the instruction (64B) to each of the clients (32A, 32B, 32C) and each client (32A, 32B, 32C) performs the same operation (63) on their respective copies of the conference data model (61). Whereby after a plurality of different operating instructions (64B) from different clients (32A, 32B, 32C) the respective copies of the conference model data (60) are equivalent.
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