METHOD FOR A REMOTE PRESENTATION BETWEEN AT LEAST TWO TERMINALS CONNECTED VIA A NETWORK

• US 20150281341A1
• Filed: 09/24/2013
• Published: 10/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IMS Software Services Ltd. (IQVIA Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cegedim Kadrige
• Inventors: Cadou, Olivier
• Granted Patent: US 10,298,667 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/765 intermediate
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for a remote presentation between a first terminal (100) and at least one second terminal (200, 200′) connected via a network, including the steps of: generating (20) events during an action of a user on one of the peripherals of the first terminal, and sending said generated events to a machine controller (110) of the first terminal. The invention is essentially characterized by also including the steps of: sending (30) said generated events to a web server (300); and sending (40) said events from said web server (300) to at least one machine controller among the machine controller (210) of said second terminal (200) and the machine controller (410) of a video server (400), the configuration of which is compatible with that of the first terminal (100).

Claims

1. A method for a remote presentation between a first terminal (100) and at least one second terminal (200, 200′

) connected via a network, including the steps of;

generating (20) events during an action of a user on one of the peripherals of the first terminal, and sending said generated events to a machine controller (110) of the first terminal;

characterised in that it also includes the steps of;

sending (30) said generated events to a web server (300); and

sending (40) said events from said web server (300) to at least one machine controller among the machine controller (210) of said second terminal (200) and the machine controller (410) of a video server (400), the configuration of which is compatible with that of the first terminal (100).

2. Method according to claim 1, further including the steps of:

comparing (70) the configuration of the first terminal (100) and that of the second terminal (210, 210′

); and

according to the result of the comparison,

if the configurations are similar, translating (80) said events before sending them to a machine controller of the second terminal;

if the configurations are not compatible,

transmitting (88) an error message or an alert message.

3. Method according to claim 1, further including, on the video server (400), the steps of:

generating and recording (50) a video stream reproducing the actions of a user on one of the peripherals of the first terminal by the events generated (20) and sent (30, 40).

4. Method according to claim 3, further including a step of disseminating (60) said video stream to said second terminal (200, 210′

).

5. Method according to claim 1, further including a step of:

synchronising (10) the first terminal and the second terminal by opening in their respective browsers a same web page (URL) or opening a same application.

6. Method according to claim 5, in which at least one of the first and second terminals comprises a browser configured to read HTML5 data format.

7. Method according to claim 1, further including on one at least of said first terminal and second terminal, at least one of the steps of:

downloading (90) a document in real time,

downloading (91) a document prior to the step of sending said events from said server to at least one machine controller among the machine controller of said second terminal and the machine controller of a video server, and

downloading (92) a document by dissemination in continuous mode.

8. Method according to claim 1, in which the step of translation (80) comprises for a given terminal at least one of the steps of:

transforming (81) the coordinates of a pointer into coordinates relating to the dimension of the screen associated with said terminal; and

establishing (82) a bijective correspondence between the actions of a user on a touch screen and similar actions on a non-touch screen.

9. Method according to claim 8, further including the steps of:

sending (31) to said web server the identity of the application launched by the action of a user on the first terminal or one of its peripherals;

sending (32) the identity of said application from said web server to at least one machine controller of said second terminal; and

forcing (33) the execution of said application on said second terminal.

10. Computer programme, including programme code instructions for the execution of the steps of the method according to claim 1, when said programme is executed on a computer.