System and methodology for collaboration in groups with split screen displays
First Claim
1. A system for collaboration for use by a plurality of users, the system comprising:
- a plurality of computing appliances, each respective one of the plurality of computing appliances having a user input apparatus for use by a respective user;
display apparatus, at an associated said computing appliance for at least two of the users,providing a display presentation of a base image permitting concurrent viewing by the at least two users;
input logic permitting concurrent input via the user input apparatus, by each of the at least two of the users, responsive to a respective input of annotations by said respective said user, that provides an output of associated annotation data, and wherein each of said annotations have an associated appearance that is displayed as an image representative of the annotations;
input mapping logic associating said annotation data for each said input with said user providing the input;
non-transitory memory providing storage of the annotation data in an area of the memory that is associated with said user providing the input of said annotation data, responsive to the input mapping logic;
coordinator logic providing selection of which of the annotations are selected annotations; and
,display logic providing a display presentation of the selected annotations as part of the display presentation for at least one of the users responsive to the annotation data associated with the selected annotations.
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Abstract
A system and methodology for collaboration. A plurality of computing appliances, each respective one of the plurality of computing appliances having a display apparatus and having a user input apparatus to provide respective annotation data as input for the respective user to permit the respective user to provide annotations which appear within a display presentation as an image for viewing and representative of the annotations. A first subset of the plurality of computing appliances is comprised of at least two of the computing appliances that form members of a group. Separate selective communication of the annotation data is provided among the members of the group. There is selective display of the annotation data to selected ones of the members of the group. The annotation data is selectively coupled for distribution to other ones of the plurality of computing appliances in the group for selective viewing at certain other ones of the plurality of computing appliances.
Selection logic permits at least one of the users'"'"' to selectively choose which of the other users within the group are selected ones that are to have their corresponding annotations viewed as part of the display presentation for the at least one of the users.
In one embodiment, a plurality of separate screen display presentations are provided in a split-screen combined presentation to each of the respective users at each said respective computing appliances. Coordinator logic selects which of the users'"'"' annotations are utilized in generated each of the display presentation for each of the respective users.
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20 Claims
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1. A system for collaboration for use by a plurality of users, the system comprising:
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a plurality of computing appliances, each respective one of the plurality of computing appliances having a user input apparatus for use by a respective user; display apparatus, at an associated said computing appliance for at least two of the users, providing a display presentation of a base image permitting concurrent viewing by the at least two users; input logic permitting concurrent input via the user input apparatus, by each of the at least two of the users, responsive to a respective input of annotations by said respective said user, that provides an output of associated annotation data, and wherein each of said annotations have an associated appearance that is displayed as an image representative of the annotations; input mapping logic associating said annotation data for each said input with said user providing the input; non-transitory memory providing storage of the annotation data in an area of the memory that is associated with said user providing the input of said annotation data, responsive to the input mapping logic; coordinator logic providing selection of which of the annotations are selected annotations; and
,display logic providing a display presentation of the selected annotations as part of the display presentation for at least one of the users responsive to the annotation data associated with the selected annotations. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method providing collaboration among a plurality of users at a plurality of computing appliances each having an input apparatus, the method comprising:
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providing a display presentation of a base image that can be concurrently viewed by a plurality of users; permitting concurrent input by at least two of the users via a respective said input apparatus to provide user annotations that provide associated user annotation data that has an associated display image; associating each said user providing the input via the input apparatus with the associated annotation data as input by said user; structuring a non-transitory memory as a plurality of areas of the memory such that each of said areas of the memory is associated with one said user, to index storage and retrieval of said annotation data associated with said user providing the input; storing the annotation data associated with each said user in the respective said area of the memory that is associated with said user; selecting which of the users are selected users; and
,providing a display presentation comprising the associated display image for the annotations associated with the selected users, responsive to retrieval of the associated annotation data associated with the selected users. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of document collaboration permitting selected ones of a plurality of users to commonly view and collaborate upon a common project, the method comprising:
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selecting a document from a plurality of documents as a selected document, wherein each said document has a display image associated therewith; presenting a display image of the selected document for concurrently viewing by a plurality of the users to provide an underlying document to collaborate upon; permitting concurrent input via a user input apparatus for each of multiple of the plurality of users, each said input providing annotations associated with said user providing the input, wherein the input of the annotations provides an output of annotation data associated with said annotations, wherein each of said respective annotations has an associated annotation display image that when displayed appears at a location as input by said user relative to the display image associated with the selected document; presenting a local display, for each user providing said input, of the associated annotation display image for the annotations input by said user; and
,presenting a display presentation for concurrently viewing by at least two of the users providing the input, of the display image of the annotations associated with said at least two of said users providing the input, wherein said display image of the annotations is shown in the display presentation as combined with the display image of the selected document. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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