Multi-process interactive systems and methods

• US 9,052,970 B2
• Filed: 10/14/2009
• Issued: 06/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oblong Industries, Inc. (Oblong, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Oblong Industries, Inc. (Oblong, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kramer, Kwindla H., Underkoffler, John S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mengistu, Amare
• Assistant Examiner(s): STEPP JONES, SHAWNA T
• Application Number:
  US12/579,372
• Publication Number:
  US 20100127968A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,064 Days
• Field of Search: 345/156, 345/502, 345/619, 717/149, 717/136, 719/318, 709/234, 709/238, 709/201, 709/205
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0325 using a plurality of light emitters or reflectors or a plurality of detectors forming a reference frame from which to derive the orientation of the object, e.g. by triangulation or on the basis of reference deformation in the picked up image
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/544 Buffers; Shared memory; Pipes

Abstract

A multi-process interactive system is described. The system includes numerous processes running on a processing device. The processes include separable program execution contexts of application programs, such that each application program comprises at least one process. The system translates events of each process into data capsules. A data capsule includes an application-independent representation of event data of an event and state information of the process originating the content of the data capsule. The system transfers the data messages into pools or repositories. Each process operates as a recognizing process, where the recognizing process recognizes in the pools data capsules comprising content that corresponds to an interactive function of the recognizing process and/or an identification of the recognizing process. The recognizing process retrieves recognized data capsules from the pools and executes processing appropriate to contents of the recognized data capsules.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

executing a plurality of processes on a processing device, the plurality of processes including separable program execution contexts of a plurality of application programs, wherein each application program comprises at least one process;

translating events of each process of the plurality of processes into data messages, wherein a data message includes an application-independent representation of event data of an event and state information of the process originating the data message;

transferring the data messages into at least one pool of a plurality of pools;

coordinating among the processes, the coordinating including each process of the plurality of processes coordinating with peer processes of the plurality of processes by retrieving from the plurality of pools the state information of the peer processes; and

generating an output of the plurality of processes by interactively combining a set of data messages of at least one pool of the plurality of pools.