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Methods and systems for receiving feedback from a scalable number of participants of an on-line presentation

  • US 7,747,953 B2
  • Filed: 06/15/2006
  • Issued: 06/29/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In an on-line presentation environment having a presenter transmitting screen data to one or more viewers, a method of providing to the presenter visual feedback by scaling the number of confirmation receipts of screen change data from the one or more viewers, the method comprising:

  • analyzing a plurality of screen change data sets at a first computing device of the on-line presentation environment, each screen change data set representing a change to a visual display of the presenter;

    tagging, by the first computing device in response to the analysis, a subset of the plurality of screen change data sets as requesting an automatically generated acknowledgement of receipt from the one or more viewers;

    transmitting an untagged screen change data set and a tagged screen change data set to the one or more viewers;

    receiving an automatically generated confirmation of receipt of the tagged screen change data set from at least one of the one or more viewers following receipt thereat of the tagged screen change data set;

    generating a representation of the tagged screen change data set received by the one or more viewers in response to receiving the automatically generated confirmation of receipt; and

    displaying the generated representation at the presenter.

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