Shared telepointer
US7996776B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 27, 2006 |
| Grant date | Aug 9, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 29, 2027 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04Q2213/13093
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A facility is described for providing shared telepointers and for enabling hosts and participants to highlight portions of documents or applications using the shared telepointers. In various embodiments, the facility establishes a sharing session wherein an application executing on a host computing device is shared with a participant computing device, receives at the host computing device an indication from a participant computing device to identify a region to users in the sharing session, draws the identified region on a display device associated with the host computing device, and causes the identified region to be drawn on a display device associated with the participant computing device. In various embodiments, the region is a spot region or a highlighted region that is drawn in a color associated with a user of the participant computing device.
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