System, display position determination method, and computer-readable recording medium

• US 10,241,736 B2
• Filed: 03/17/2016
• Issued: 03/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Miki, Morio
• Primary Examiner(s): Faragalla, Michael A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bibbee, Chayce R
• Application Number:
  US15/072,544
• Publication Number:
  US 20160274855A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,104 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2356/00 Detection of the display position w.r.t. other display screens
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties

Abstract

A system includes a first processor and terminals connected to the first processor via a network. Each terminal has a second processor. The terminals includes a first terminal that transmits target data by a first user to a second terminal, so that the target data is received by the second terminal and displayed on a second column. The first processor refers to role data including identification data of the terminals associated with identification data of roles of users, determines a role of the user associated to a name of the first terminal, attaches identification data of a role of the first user to the target data, and transmits the target data and the attached identification data. The second processor receives the target data and the attached identification data and determines a position at which the target data is displayed on the second column based on role display data.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a first device including a first processor; and

a second device connected to the first device via a network, the second device having a second processor and a display displaying a chat screen,

wherein the first processor of the first device is configured to transmit;

a first chat instruction including (i) first text data generated by a first user and (ii) first role identification data indicating that the first user has a role of a presenter in a conference, and

a second chat instruction including (i) second text data generated by a second user and (ii) second role identification data indicating that the second user has a role of a non-presenter participant in the conference,

to the second device,

wherein the second processor of the second device is configured to receive the first chat instruction and the second chat instruction and display the first text data included in the first chat instruction and the second text data included in the second chat instruction on the chat screen of the second device;

wherein the second processor is configured (i) to determine a position at which the first text data is displayed on the chat screen, based on a first display position previously associated with the first role identification data, and (ii) to determine a position at which the second text data is displayed on the chat screen, based on a second display position previously associated with the second role identification data, the second display position different than the first display position; and

wherein the first display position and the second display position indicate respective positions at which the first text data and the second text data are to be displayed on the chat screen.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the first device includes a role data storage unit that stores role data that includes identification data of a plurality of devices associated with identification data of roles of users of the plurality of devices,

wherein the first processor refers to the role data stored in the role data storage unit and determines the first user having the role of the presenter and the second user having the role of the non-presenter participant based on the stored role data, and

wherein the first processor is configured to generate the transmitted first chat instruction by attaching the first role identification data to the first text data generated by the first user, and to generate the transmitted second chat instruction by attaching the second role identification data to the second text data generated by the second user.

3. The system as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the second device includes a role data storage unit that stores the first display position in association with the first role identification data and that stores the second display position in association with the second role identification data.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein a plurality of processors are provided as the first processor.

7. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first device receives the transmitted first chat instruction from a third device connected to the first device and the second device via the network, and receives the transmitted second chat instruction from a fourth device connected to the first device and the second device via the network.

5. A display position determination method in a system including a first device including a first processor and a second device connected to the first device via a network and having a second processor and a display displaying a chat screen, the method comprising:

transmitting, by the first device, a first chat instruction including (i) first text data generated by a first user and (ii) first role identification data indicating that the first user has a role of a presenter in a conference, to the second device;

transmitting, by the first device, a second chat instruction including (i) second text data generated by a second user and (ii) second role identification data indicating that the second user has a role of a non-presenter participant in the conference, to the second device;

receiving the first chat instruction and the second chat instruction by the second device and displaying the first text data included in the first chat instruction and the second text data included in the second chat instruction on the chat screen of the second device;

determining, by the second device, a position at which the first text data is displayed on the chat screen of the second device based on a first display position previously associated with the first role identification data; and

determining, by the second device, a position at which the second text data is displayed on the chat screen of the second device based on a second display position previously associated with the second role identification data, the second display position different than the first display position;

wherein the first display position and the second display position indicate respective positions at which the first text data and the second text data are to be displayed on the chat screen.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium on which programming is recorded for causing execution of a display position determination process in a system including a first device including a first processor and a second device connected to the first device via a network and having a second processor and a display displaying a chat screen, the display position determination process comprising:

transmitting, by the first device a first chat instruction including (i) first text data generated by a first user and (ii) first role identification data indicating that the first user has a role of a presenter in a conference, to the second device;

transmitting, by the first device, a second chat instruction including (i) second text data generated by a second user and (ii) second role identification data indicating that the second user has a role of a non-presenter participant in the conference, to the second device;

receiving the first chat instruction and the second chat instruction by the second device and displaying the first text data included in the first chat instruction and the second text data included in the second chat instruction on the chat screen of the second device;

determining, by the second device, a position at which the first text data is displayed on the chat screen of the second device based on a first display position previously associated with the first role identification data; and

determining, by the second device, a position at which the second text data is displayed on the chat screen of the second device based on a second display position previously associated with the second role identification data, the second display position different than the first display position;

wherein the first display position and the second display position indicate respective positions at which the first text data and the second text data are to be displayed on the chat screen.