Display engagement system

• US 20020198938A1
• Filed: 03/29/2002
• Published: 12/26/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Nakagawa, Kenichi, Katada, Keisuke
• Granted Patent: US 7,174,505 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A relay server computer adds control code to background contents to generate web data for display engagement, and sends the generated web data to every client computer. The control code becomes a controller by executed on the client. When an object such as image is pasted on the background contents displayed in an engaged fashion, the controller detects the event occurred by pasting, and sends the information indicating the event to the other clients via relay server. Consequently, the screen with the object being pasted is displayed in an engaged fashion among all clients. The object can be moved, modified, or deleted.

Claims

1. A program product comprising a display engagement program, said display engagement program controlling a server computer, connectable to client computers each executing a web browser, to execute:

a step of sending said client computers web data including background contents, control code making the client computer display a layer object with reflecting manipulation on the same layer object, and control code making the client computer transmit manipulation on the layer object to said server computer; and

a step of broadcasting, when the manipulation on the layer object is transmitted from one of said client computers, the same manipulation to the other client computers.

2. The program product according to claim 1, said control code included in said web data making said client computer generate, when a manipulation of pasting the layer object to the background contents is made at the same client computer, a manipulating information indicating the manipulation, and send it to said server computer to make the same server computer broadcast the manipulating information to all of the client computers except one which sent the manipulating information to make each of said client computers to which the manipulating information is broadcasted paste the layer object to the background contents according to the manipulating information.

3. The program product according to claim 2, said manipulating information includes a palette ID uniquely corresponding to a object selected form a group of still image, moving images, and text data;

and

said control code included in said web data making said client computer specify, when the same client computer receives the manipulating information from said server computer, the object corresponding to the palette ID included in the manipulating information by referring palette data containing pairs of the palette ID and the corresponding object to process the specified object as a layer object.

4. The program product according to claim 3, said control code included in said web data making said client computer generate, when a registration of the palette data is made at the same client computer, a registration information including the palette data, and send it to said server computer to make the same server computer broadcast the registration information to all of the client computers except one which sent the registration information to make each of said client computers to which the registration information is broadcasted store the palette data included in the registration information.

5. The program product according to claim 2, said control code included in said web data making said client computer generate, when an instruction of storing what is displayed is made at the same client computer, an instructing information representing the instruction, and send it to said server computer to make the same server computer generate snap data including the layer object'"'"'s status based on the manipulating information obtained from said client computers and store the generated snap data.

6. The program product according to claim 5, said manipulating information including the user ID indicating the user who has made the same manipulating information;

and

said snap data including information relating the object to the user ID indicating the user who has pasted the same object.

7. A display engagement method actualized by a server computer connectable to client computers each executing a web browser, comprising:

a step of sending said client computers web data including background contents, control code making the client computer display a layer object with reflecting manipulation on the same layer object, and control code making the client computer transmit manipulation on the layer object to said server computer; and

a step of broadcasting, when the manipulation on the layer object is transmitted from one of said client computers, the same manipulation to the other client computers.

8. The method according to claim 7, said control code included in said web data making said client computer generate, when a manipulation of pasting the layer object to the background contents is made at the same client computer, a manipulating information indicating the manipulation, and send it to said server computer to make the same server computer broadcast the manipulating information to all of the client computers except one which sent the manipulating information to make each of said client computers to which the manipulating information is broadcasted paste the layer object to the background contents according to the manipulating information.

9. The method according to claim 8, said manipulating information includes a palette ID uniquely corresponding to a object selected form a group of still image, moving images, and text data;

and

said control code included in said web data making said client computer specify, when the same client computer receives the manipulating information from said server computer, the object corresponding to the palette ID included in the manipulating information by referring palette data containing pairs of the palette ID and the corresponding object to process the specified object as a layer object.

10. The method according to claim 9, said control code included in said web data making said client computer generate, when a registration of the palette data is made at the same client computer, a registration information including the palette data, and send it to said server computer to make the same server computer broadcast the registration information to all of the client computers except one which sent the registration information to make each of said client computers to which the registration information is broadcasted store the palette data included in the registration information.

11. The method according to claim 8, said control code included in said web data making said client computer generate, when an instruction of storing what is displayed is made at the same client computer, an instructing information representing the instruction, and send it to said server computer to make the same server computer generate snap data including the layer object'"'"'s status based on the manipulating information obtained from said client computers and store the generated snap data.

12. The method according to claim 11, said manipulating information including the user ID indicating the user who has made the same manipulating information;

and

said snap data including information relating the object to the user ID indicating the user who has pasted the same object.

14. The system according to claim 13, said control code included in said web data making said client computer generate, when a manipulation of pasting the layer object to the background contents is made at the same client computer, a manipulating information indicating the manipulation, and send it to said server computer to make the same server computer broadcast the manipulating information to all of the client computers except one which sent the manipulating information to make each of said client computers to which the manipulating information is broadcasted paste the layer object to the background contents according to the manipulating information.

15. The system according to claim 14, said manipulating information includes a palette ID uniquely corresponding to a object selected form a group of still image, moving images, and text data;

and

said control code included in said web data making said client computer specify, when the same client computer receives the manipulating information from said server computer, the object corresponding to the palette ID included in the manipulating information by referring palette data containing pairs of the palette ID and the corresponding object to process the specified object as a layer object.

16. The system according to claim 15, said control code included in said web data making said client computer generate, when a registration of the palette data is made at the same client computer, a registration information including the palette data, and send it to said server computer to make the same server computer broadcast the registration information to all of the client computers except one which sent the registration information to make each of said client computers to which the registration information is broadcasted store the palette data included in the registration information.

17. The system according to claim 14, said control code included in said web data making said client computer generate, when an instruction of storing what is displayed is made at the same client computer, an instructing information representing the instruction, and send it to said server computer to make the same server computer generate snap data including the layer object'"'"'s status based on the manipulating information obtained from said client computers and store the generated snap data.

18. The system according to claim 17, said manipulating information including the user ID indicating the user who has made the same manipulating information;

and

said snap data including information relating the object to the user ID indicating the user who has pasted the same object.

13. A display engagement system, comprising:

a server computer connectable to client computers each executing a web browser; and

a display engagement program stored with a storing device, said display engagement program controlling said server computer to execute;

a step of sending said client computers web data including background contents, control code making the client computer display a layer object with reflecting manipulation on the same layer object, and control code making the client computer transmit manipulation on the layer object to said server computer, and

a step of broadcasting, when the manipulation on the layer object is transmitted from one of said client computers, the same manipulation to the other client computers.