Remote slide show system using a browser

• US 7,290,204 B1
• Filed: 01/04/2000
• Issued: 10/30/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Kanno, Hironori, Hirashima, Yoshiyuki, Furuyama, Mikio
• Primary Examiner(s): DESAI, RACHNA SINGH
• Application Number:
  US09/477,452
• Time in Patent Office: 2,856 Days
• Field of Search: 715/500.1, 715/501.1, 709/203
• US Class Current: 715/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing

Abstract

A plurality of uniform resource locators are automatically notified from a local side computer to one or more remote side computers in a predetermined sequence and at predetermined intervals, and the browser of each of the remote side computers displays the corresponding web pages.

Claims

1. A slide show system for a local side computer terminal and a plurality of remote side computer terminals, comprising:

a presenter controlled control unit obtaining URL information defined on a World Wide Web information network and used by the presenter to output information on the local side computer terminal, according to a predetermined output sequence;

an interface unit for sequentially transmitting a plurality of pieces of obtained URL information to the remote side computer terminals and for instructing an output of information by the remote side computers corresponding to the transmitted pieces of URL information as controlled by the presenter; and

a storing unit storing a correspondence relationship between the plurality of pieces of URL information and a plurality of sequence numbers representing the output sequence and storing an address table which includes respective terminal addresses of the local side computer terminal and the remote side computer terminals and includes flag information indicating whether each of the terminal addresses is to be notified of the URL information, and

wherein said presenter controlled control unit obtains a piece of URL information to be notified to the remote side computer terminals by referring to the correspondence relationship, determines whether each of the local side computer terminal and the remote side computer terminals is to be notified of the determined piece of URL information by referring to the address table and causes data accessed using the URL information to be displayed at a predetermined interval indicating a display time period of each page accessed using the URL information via each remote side computer terminal determined to be notified of the URL information.

2. The slide show system according to claim 1 wherein said presenter controlled control unit stores bookmark data which is caused to be registered into at least one of the remote side computer terminals based on an instruction from the local side computer terminal.

3. A slide show system for a remote side computer terminal, comprising:

a browser unit obtaining information by using URL information defined on a World Wide Web information network;

an interface unit receiving a plurality of pieces of URL information which are sequentially transmitted from a local side presenter controlled computer terminal and are used by the presenter to output information on the local side presenter controlled computer terminal according to a predetermined output sequence;

a control unit for notifying said browser unit of a received piece of URL information and for instructing an output of information corresponding to the notified piece of URL information; and

a storing unit storing a correspondence relationship between the plurality of pieces of URL information and a plurality of sequence numbers representing the predetermined output sequence and storing an address table which includes respective terminal addresses of the local side presenter controlled computer terminal and a plurality of remote side computer terminals and includes flag information indicating whether the URL information transmitted from each of the terminal addresses is to be accepted,

wherein said presenter controlled computer terminal obtains a piece of URL information to be transmitted from the local side presenter controlled computer terminal by referring to the correspondence relationship, said control unit determines whether the received piece of URL information is to be accepted and notified to the browser unit by referring to the address table and displays the data accessed using the URL information at a predetermined interval indicating a display time period of each page accessed using the URL information via each remote side computer terminal determined to be notified of the URL information.

4. The slide show system according to claim 3, wherein said control unit causes bookmark data stored in the local side presenter controlled computer terminal to be registered into a remote side computer terminal based on instruction from the local side presenter controlled terminal.

5. A computer-readable storage medium on which is recorded a program for causing a computer to execute a process for a local side presenter controlled computer terminal and a plurality of remote side computer terminals, said process comprising:

referring to a correspondence relationship between a plurality of pieces of URL information and a sequence number representing a predetermined output sequence, wherein the plurality of pieces of URL information is selected by the presenter and defined on a World Wide Web information network for the local side presenter controlled terminal;

determining whether each of the local side presenter controlled computer terminal and the remote side computer terminals is to be notified of the pieces of URL information by referring to an address table which includes respective terminal addresses of the local side presenter controlled computer terminal and the remote side computer terminals and includes flag information indicating whether each of the terminal addresses is to be notified of the URL information;

sequentially transmitting to a remote side computer terminal the plurality of pieces of URL information corresponding to a current sequence number; and

instructing the remote side computer terminal to output information corresponding to each transmitted piece of URL information, where data accessed using the URL information is displayed at a predetermined interval indicating a display time period of each page accessed using the URL information via each remote side computer terminal determined to be notified of the URL information.

6. A computer-readable storage medium on which is recorded a program for causing a computer to execute a process for a plurality of remote side computer terminals, said process comprising:

receiving from a local side presenter controlled computer terminal a plurality of pieces of URL information and a sequence number representing a predetermined output sequence, wherein the plurality of pieces of URL information is selected by the presenter and corresponds to a current sequence number which is obtained from a correspondence relationship between the plurality of pieces of address information defined on a World Wide Web information network;

determining whether the received piece of URL information is to be accepted and notified to the browser unit by referring to an address table which includes respective terminal addresses of the local side presenter controlled computer terminal and a plurality of remote side computer terminals and includes flag information indicating whether the URL information transmitted from each of the terminal addresses is to be accepted;

notifying a browser of each received piece of received URL information; and

instructing the browser to output information corresponding to each received piece of notified URL information, where data accessed using the URL information is displayed at a predetermined interval indicating a display time period of each page accessed using the URL information via each remote side computer terminal determined to be notified of the URL information.

7. A presentation process, comprising:

obtaining a sequence of material segments to be presented and selected by a presenter, with the segments having corresponding URLs in a presenter computer;

determining whether remote computer terminals are to receive the segments by referring to an address table which includes respective addresses of the presenter computer and the remote computer terminals and includes flag information indicating whether each of the remote computer terminals are to receive the segments;

transmitting the URLs one at a time to the remote computer terminals in accordance with the sequence;

retrieving the segments from the presenter computer responsive to the URLs;

presenting the material segments to users via the remote computer terminals;

storing a correspondence relationship between the URLs and the sequence of material segments to be presented; and

obtaining one of the URLs transmitted to the remote computer terminals by referring to the correspondence relationship, where data accessed using the URL information is displayed at a predetermined interval indicating a display time period of each page accessed using the URL information via each remote computer terminal determined to be notified of the URL information.