Portable presentation system and methods for use therewith
First Claim
1. A collaboration system for sharing digital content among a plurality of session attendees, the collaboration system comprising:
- a first interface device including a first processor and at least a first display screen, the first processor providing a first interface via the at least a first display screen that includes a first presentation space, a first presentation space and a first device section, the first panel icon section including thumbnail representations of images associated with a current session, the first device section including a separate attendee icon corresponding to each of a plurality of computer interface devices linked to the session, each computer interface device used by at least one conference attendee, the first presentation space including space in which enlarged versions of the thumbnail representations may be presented for viewing;
a second interface device linked via a communication link to the first interface device, the second interface device including a second processor and at least a second display screen, the second processor providing a second interface via the second display screen that includes a second presentation space, a second panel icon section and a second device section, the second presentation space, second panel icon section and the second device section substantially replicating the first presentation space, the firs panel icon section and the first device section, respectively; and
wherein, either of the first and second interfaces is useable in an egalitarian fashion to select a plurality of thumbnail representations for simultaneous presentation during a session in an associated presentation space causing the processors to present enlarged representations of the selected plurality of thumbnail representations in each of the first and second presentation spaces.
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Abstract
A collaboration system comprising a first large display screen supported within the conference space and a processor linked to the large display screen and providing an interface thereon that includes a presentation space for presenting session content and a device icon section, the device icon section including a separate attendee icon for each attendee linked to the session via a portable computing device, wherein any one of the portable computing devices is useable to control content presented in the presentation space, the processor programmed to perform the steps of receiving a command to alter the content in the presentation space from any one of the portable computing devices, in response to receiving the command, altering the content in the presentation space and visually distinguishing the attendee icon associated with the portable computing device most recently used to change the content in the presentation space, wherein the portable computing devices are used in an egalitarian fashion.
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42 Claims
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1. A collaboration system for sharing digital content among a plurality of session attendees, the collaboration system comprising:
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a first interface device including a first processor and at least a first display screen, the first processor providing a first interface via the at least a first display screen that includes a first presentation space, a first presentation space and a first device section, the first panel icon section including thumbnail representations of images associated with a current session, the first device section including a separate attendee icon corresponding to each of a plurality of computer interface devices linked to the session, each computer interface device used by at least one conference attendee, the first presentation space including space in which enlarged versions of the thumbnail representations may be presented for viewing; a second interface device linked via a communication link to the first interface device, the second interface device including a second processor and at least a second display screen, the second processor providing a second interface via the second display screen that includes a second presentation space, a second panel icon section and a second device section, the second presentation space, second panel icon section and the second device section substantially replicating the first presentation space, the firs panel icon section and the first device section, respectively; and wherein, either of the first and second interfaces is useable in an egalitarian fashion to select a plurality of thumbnail representations for simultaneous presentation during a session in an associated presentation space causing the processors to present enlarged representations of the selected plurality of thumbnail representations in each of the first and second presentation spaces. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A collaboration system for sharing digital content among a plurality of session attendees, the collaboration system comprising:
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a first interface device that includes a large display screen supported in a first conference space for viewing by a plurality of attendees located in the conference space, the first interface device also including a first processor, the first processor providing a first interface on the large display screen that includes at least a first presentation space; a plurality of additional interface assemblies, each additional interface assembly including an additional processor and at least one additional display screen, each additional processor providing an additional interface via the associated additional display screen that includes an additional presentation space, a panel icon section and a device section, the panel section including thumbnail representations of images associated with a current session, and the device section including a separate attendee icon corresponding to each of a plurality of session attendees, each of at least a subset of the session attendees linked to the session via one of the additional interface assemblies, each presentation space including space in which enlarged versions of the thumbnail representations may be presented for viewing; wherein, each additional interface is useable to select any one of the thumbnail representations for presentation during a session in the presentation spaces causing the processors to present enlarged representations of the selected one of the thumbnail representations in the first presentation space and each of the presentation spaces included in the additional interfaces; and wherein, the attendee icon associated with the interface device most recently used to control content in the presentation spaces is visually distinguished from other attendee icons on each of the interfaces. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. A collaboration system for sharing content in a conference space where each of a subset of conference attendees uses a portable computing device that includes a display screen, the collaboration system comprising:
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a first large display screen supported within the conference space to be viewed by a plurality of attendees in the conference space; and a processor linked to the large display screen and providing an interface thereon that includes a presentation space for presenting session content and a device icon section, the device icon section including a separate attendee icon for each of the attendees linked to the session via one of the portable computing devices, wherein any one of the portable computing devices is useable to control content presented in the presentation space, the processor programmed to perform the steps of; (i) receiving a command to alter the content in the presentation space from any one of the portable computing devices; (ii) in response to receiving the command, altering the content in the presentation space; and (iii) visually distinguishing the attendee icon associated with the portable computing device most recently used to change the content in the presentation space; wherein, any one of the portable computing devices is useable to change the content in the presentation space at any time during an ongoing session. - View Dependent Claims (42)
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