Display engagement system

• US 7,174,505 B2
• Filed: 03/29/2002
• Issued: 02/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Nakagawa, Kenichi, Katada, Keisuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Hutton; Doug
• Assistant Examiner(s): Blackwell; James H.
• Application Number:
  US10/108,340
• Publication Number:
  US 20020198938A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,775 Days
• Field of Search: 715/711, 715/568, 715/512, 715/511, 709/224, 709/219, 709/217, 709/205, 709/204, 709/202, 707/2
• US Class Current: 715/207
• 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 computer-readable medium encoded with processing instructions for causing a server computer, connectable to client computers, each client computer executing a web browser, to execute:

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;

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

said control code included in said web data making a client computer generate, when a manipulation of pasting an image as the layer object to the background contents is made at the same client computer, a manipulating information indicating the manipulation, sending the manipulating information to said server computer to make said server computer broadcast the manipulating information to all of the client computers except the client computer that 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 manipulation information;

said manipulating information including a palette ID uniquely corresponding to an object selected by a user of the client computer from a group of still images, moving images, and text data;

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; and

said control code included in said web data making said client computer generate, when an instruction to store what is displayed is made at the same client computer, an instructing information representing the instruction, and sending the instructing information to said server computer, to make said 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.

2. A computer-readable medium according to claim 1, further comprising:

said manipulating information including a user ID indicating the user who has made said manipulating information; and

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

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

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;

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

said control code included in said web data making a client computer generate, when a manipulation of pasting an image as the layer object to the background contents is made at the same client computer, a manipulating information indicating the manipulation, sending the manipulating information to said server computer to make said server computer broadcast the manipulating information to all of the client computers except the client computer that 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 manipulation information;

said manipulating information including a palette ID uniquely corresponding to an object selected by a user of the client computer from a group of still images, moving images, and text data;

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; and

said control code included in said web data making said client computer generate, when an instruction to store what is displayed is made at the same client computer, an instructing information representing the instruction, and sending the instructing information to said server computer, to make said 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.

4. A method according to claim 3, further comprising:

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 sending the registration information to said server computer to make said server computer broadcast the registration information to all of the client computers except the client computer that 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. A method according to claim 3, further comprising:

said manipulating information including a user ID indicating the user who has made the same manipulating information; and

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

6. A display engagement system, comprising:

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

a computer-readable medium encoded with processing instructions for causing said server computer to execute;

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,

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

said control code included in said web data making a client computer generate, when a manipulation of pasting an image as the layer object to the background contents is made at the same computer, a manipulating information indicating the manipulation, sending the manipulating information to said server computer to make said server computer broadcast the manipulating information to all of the client computers except the client computer that sent the manipulating information, to make each of said client computers to which the manipulating information is broadcasted past the layer object to the background contents according to the manipulation information,

wherein

said manipulating information includes a palette ID uniquely corresponding to an object selected by a user of the client computer from a group of still images, moving images, and text data,

said control code included in said web data makes 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, and

said control code included in said web data makes said client computer generate, when an instruction to store what is displayed is made at the same client computer, an instructing information representing the instruction, and sends the instruction information to said server computer to make said 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.

7. A system according to claim 6, wherein

said control code included in said web data makes 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 the registration information to said server computer to make said server computer broadcast the registration information to all of the client computers except the client computer that 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.

8. A system according to claim 6, wherein

said manipulating information includes a user ID indicating the user who has made the same manipulating information, and

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