Providing feedback for screen sharing

• US 9,588,652 B2
• Filed: 12/12/2011
• Issued: 03/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bhogal, Kulvir S., Boss, Gregory J., Hamilton, Rick A. II, Sand, Anne R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gaffin, Jeffrey A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lee, Justin
• Application Number:
  US13/323,696
• Publication Number:
  US 20130151976A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,912 Days
• Field of Search: 709/204, 715/735
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15

Abstract

A method, data processing system and computer program product for sharing displayed content. A content displayed on a source computer system is shared with a set of target computer systems, wherein the content is displayed on a target display on each target computer system in the set of target computer systems. In response to a change in the content displayed on the source computer system, a progress in displaying the change in the content on the target display on the each target computer system in the set of target computer systems is identified. An indication of the progress in displaying the change in the content on the target display on the each target computer system in the set of target computer systems is generated at the source computer system.

Claims

1. A method for sharing displayed content, the method comprising:

sharing a content displayed on a source computer system with a set of target computer systems, wherein the content shared is displayed on a target display on each target computer system in the set of target computer systems;

responsive to a change in the content displayed on the source computer system, sending information comprising the change in the content to one or more target computer systems in the set of target computer systems, wherein the change in the content displayed on the source computer system is a difference between the content displayed at a current time as compared to the content displayed at a previous time, and wherein each of the one or more target computer system receives the change and begins to display the change in the content on a respective target display;

receiving, from each target computer system, an indication of progress in displaying the change in the content on the respective target display on each of the one or more target computer systems in the set of target computer systems, since beginning to display the change in the content on the respective target display, wherein the indication of progress includes an expected amount of time until the change in the content is actually displayed as complete on the respective target display on each of the one or more target computer system in the set of target computer systems, and wherein the progress in displaying the change in the content on the respective target display for each of the one or more target computer systems is monitored and compared with the progress since beginning to display the change in the content of each other target computer system;

generating, at the source computer system, an indication of the progress since beginning to display the change in the content until the change in the content is actually displayed as complete on the respective target display on each of the one or more target computer systems in the set of target computer systems, wherein the indication generated is selected from a set of indications comprising a color, a graphical content, a sound, a number, an icon, and pixels; and

displaying the indication of the progress in displaying the change in the content on the respective target display on each of the one or more target computer systems in the set of target computer systems on a source display on the source computer system.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

displaying the indication of the progress in displaying the change in the content on the target display on each of the one or more target computer systems in the set of target computer systems on a target display in the set of target computer systems.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

displaying the indication of the progress in displaying the change in the content on the respective target display on a respective target computer system in the set of target computer systems on the respective target display on the respective target computer system.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein sharing the content displayed on the source computer system with the set of target computer systems, wherein the content is displayed on the target display on each target computer system in the set of target computer systems comprises:

sharing the content displayed on a portion of a source display on the source computer system with the set of target computer systems, wherein the content is displayed on the respective target display on each of the one or more target computer systems in the set of target computer systems.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

determining a set of actions that are required to display the change in the content on the respective target display on a respective target computer system in the set of target computer systems within a specified amount of time; and

displaying the set of actions on the source computer system.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

responsive to determining that a threshold number of the one or more set of target computer systems has displayed the change in the content, displaying the indication on the source computer system that the threshold number of the set of target computer systems has displayed the change in the content.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

responsive to determining that an identified portion of the set of target computer systems has displayed the change in the content, displaying the indication on the source computer system that the identified portion of the set of target computer systems has displayed the change in the content.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the indication of the progress in displaying the change in the content on the respective target display on each of the one or more target computer system in the set of target computer systems at the source computer system, further includes an indicator that displaying the change has not started when displaying the change has not started on the respective target display.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the indication of the progress in displaying the change in the content on the respective target display on each of the one or more target computer system in the set of target computer systems at the source computer system includes an indicator that displaying the change has started but is not complete, when displaying the change on the respective target display has started but is not complete.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the indication of the progress in displaying the change in the content on the respective target display on each of the one or more target computer system in the set of target computer systems at the source computer system includes an indicator that displaying the change has completed when progress in displaying the change on the respective target display has completed.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the indication of the progress in displaying the change in the content on the respective target display on each target computer system in the set of target computer systems at the source computer system includes a first indicator that displaying the change has not started when displaying the change has not started on the respective target display, a second indicator that displaying the change has started but is not complete, when displaying the change on the respective target display has started but is not complete, and a third indicator that displaying the change has completed when progress in displaying the change on the respective target display has completed.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the first indicator includes using the color red, the second indicator includes using the color yellow, and the third indicator includes using the color green.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the indication of the progress in displaying the change in the content on the respective target display on each of the one or more target computer systems in the set of target computer systems at the source computer system includes a percentage of completion in displaying the change on the respective target display.