SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGIES FOR COLLABORATION UTILIZING AN UNDERLYING COMMON DISPLAY PRESENTATION

• US 20190325014A1
• Filed: 06/21/2019
• Published: 10/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Collaboration Technologies, LLC
• Original Assignee: H David
• Inventors: H., David
• Granted Patent: US 11,003,842 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/08 providing for individual presentation of information to a plurality of student stations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1827 Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

A system and methodology for use by a plurality of users, each of the users having a display apparatus and an input apparatus. An underlying common display presentation is provided to all of the users as a base image display. A plurality of the users input annotations while the users are viewing the base image display. The annotation data from the annotations is stored in an addressable area of memory associated with the respective said user, for at least two of the users. A modified display presentation is shown to at least two of the users, comprised of the base image display combined with a video display image generated responsive to at least some of the annotation data for at least two of said users.

Claims

1. A method for use by a plurality of users, each of the users having a display apparatus and an input apparatus, the method comprising:

providing an underlying common display presentation to all of the users as a base image display;

permitting input of annotations by a plurality of the users, while the users are viewing the base image display, to generate annotation data responsive thereto;

storing the annotation data input by a respective said user in an addressable area of memory associated with the respective said user, for at least two of the users;

generating a modified display presentation shown to at least two of the users, comprised of the base image display combined with a video display image generated responsive to at least some of the annotation data for at least two of said users.

2. The method as in claim 1, further comprising:

communications logic providing selective communication of the annotation data associated with the at least two of the users;

wherein the modified display presentation logic provides a display of the modified display presentation on the display apparatus of at least one of the users of the group.

3. The method as in claim 1,

wherein the addressable areas of the memory are comprised of a plurality of mapped data layers of storage, each of the data layers associatively mapped to store the annotation data input by a respective one of the users;

wherein each of the data layers stores the annotation data as input by the associated users responsive to the mapping logic;

wherein the annotation data that is stored in at least two of the data layers is combined and utilized to generate the modified display presentation locally at the display apparatus for at least two of the users.

4. The method as in claim 1, further comprising:

selecting as selected annotation data for selected annotations, at least a part of the annotation data stored in at least two of the addressable areas of memory associated with the at least two of the users; and

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generating said modified display presentation responsive to the selected annotations.

5. The method as in claim 1,

wherein the display of the annotations appear in the modified display presentation at a position as input by the user relative to the display presentation, said position comprised of a position relative to the underlying common display presentation.

6. The method as in claim 1, further comprising:

associating a plurality of the users into a plurality of groups, each said group comprised of at least two of the users;

providing the underlying common display presentation to all of the users in all of the groups;

associating each said addressable area of memory with one said user, for each of a plurality of the users, for the plurality of the groups;

providing for each said group, selection of the addressable areas of memory associated with the users in said group to comprise a selected set of areas associated with said group;

providing for each said group, generation of a group modified display presentation shown to the users in said group, responsive to at least some of the annotation data stored in the selected set of areas associated with said group.

7. The method as in claim 1,

wherein the underlying common display presentation is comprised of a video game.

8. The method as in claim 1,

wherein the underlying common display presentation is comprised of an audiovisual presentation.

9. A system for use by a first user to collaborate with at least one other user, each of the users having an input apparatus and a display apparatus, the system comprising:

display presentation logic providing a display presentation of an underlying common display presentation to each of the users;

input control logic permitting concurrent input via the input apparatus of user annotations by each of the users, each said input generating corresponding annotation data, wherein said input is made while the users are viewing the underlying common display presentation, wherein said user annotations have an associated image representative of the annotations;

non-transitory memory structured as storage comprised of a plurality of addressable areas of memory;

mapping logic associating each said addressable area of memory with one said user, for each of the users;

storage logic storing the annotation data for each said user, in the addressable area of memory associated with the user, responsive to the mapping logic, and the input control logic;

selection logic, selecting at least two of the addressable areas of memory as a selected set of areas of memory; and

display presentation logic, generating an updated display presentation comprised of at least a portion of the underlying common display presentation and a display generated of the associated images for selected ones of the user annotations generated responsive to the annotation data from the selected set of areas of memory for the selected ones of the user annotations.

10. The system as in claim 9,

wherein said user annotations have an associated image representative of the annotations appearing at a user-defined position relative to the underlying common display presentation.

11. The system as in claim 9, further comprising:

communications logic providing selective communication of the annotation data of the first user to the at least one other user and providing communication of the annotation data of the at least one other user to the first user.

12. The method as in claim 9,

wherein the underlying common display presentation is comprised of a video game.

13. The method as in claim 9,

wherein the underlying common display presentation is comprised of an audiovisual presentation.

14. A method for a first user to collaborate with at least one other user, each of the users having an input apparatus and a display apparatus, the method comprising:

providing a display presentation of an underlying common display presentation to each of the users;

permitting concurrent input via the input apparatus of user annotations by each of the users, each said input generating corresponding annotation data, wherein said input is made while the users are viewing the underlying common display presentation, wherein said user annotations have an associated image representative of the annotations;

structuring non-transitory memory as storage comprised of a plurality of addressable areas of memory;

associating each said addressable area of memory with one said user, for each of the users;

storing the annotation data for each said user, in the addressable area of memory associated with the user;

selecting at least two of the addressable areas of memory as a selected set of areas of memory; and

generating an updated display presentation comprised of at least a portion of the underlying common display presentation and a display generated of the associated images for selected ones of the user annotations generated responsive to the annotation data from the selected set of areas of memory for the selected ones of the user annotations.

15. The method as in claim 14,

wherein said user annotations have an associated image representative of the annotations appearing at a user-defined position relative to the underlying common display presentation.

16. The method as in claim 14, further comprising:

providing selective communication of the annotation data of the first user to the at least one other user and providing communication of the annotation data of the at least one other user to the first user.

17. The method as in claim 14,

wherein the underlying common display presentation is comprised of a video game.

18. The method as in claim 14,

wherein the underlying common display presentation is comprised of an audiovisual presentation.

19. The method as in claim 14, further comprising:

selecting as selected annotation data for selected annotations, at least a part of the annotation data stored in at least two of the addressable areas of memory associated with the at least two of the users; and

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generating said modified display presentation responsive to the selected annotations.

20. The method as in claim 14,

wherein the display of the annotations appear in the modified display presentation at a position as input by the user relative to the underlying common display presentation.