METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR REMOTE INTERACTION USING A PARTITIONED DISPLAY

• US 20100309195A1
• Filed: 06/08/2009
• Published: 12/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Swakker LLC
• Original Assignee: Swakker LLC
• Inventors: Castleman, Mark
• Granted Patent: US 8,286,084 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/418
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission

Abstract

In some embodiments, a processor-readable medium includes code representing instructions to cause a processor to perform a process. The code stored by the processor-readable medium includes code to cause the processor to allocate a portion of a display screen of a first device to be uniquely associated with a second device and to send to the second device a directive representing a symbol appearing on the display screen when a user-selected indicator is received. The user-selected indicator is associated with the portion of the display screen of the first device. The first device is mutually exclusive from the second device.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

displaying a first portion of a canvas on a display screen; and

sending a directive to a remote device associated with a second portion of the canvas when a position of a symbol on the first portion of the canvas is within an area on the first portion of the canvas uniquely associated with the second portion of the canvas, the directive causing the remote device associated with the second portion of the canvas to display the symbol on the second portion of the canvas, the first portion of the canvas being mutually exclusive from the second portion of the canvas.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first portion of the canvas is associated with a first user and the second portion of the canvas is associated with a second user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the directive is a first directive, the symbol is a first symbol and the area is a first area, the method further comprising:

sending a second directive to a remote device associated with a third portion of the canvas when a position of a second symbol on the first portion of the canvas is within a second area on the first portion of the canvas uniquely associated with the third portion of the canvas, the second directive causing the remote device associated with the third portion of the canvas to display the second symbol on the third portion of the canvas, the third portion of the canvas being mutually exclusive from the first portion of the canvas and the second portion of the canvas.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the directive includes a behavior profile having information about the behavior of the symbol.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the directive includes a behavior profile having information about a motion path of the symbol.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the directive includes a behavior profile having information about a motion path of the symbol such that the symbol appears to be moving on the second portion of the canvas in substantially a same path in which the symbol was moved to the position on the first portion of the canvas when the symbol is displayed on the second portion of the canvas.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the directive is a first directive and the symbol is a first symbol, the method further comprising:

receiving a second directive from the remote device associated with the second portion of the canvas, the second directive being associated with a second symbol; and

displaying the second symbol within the area of the first portion of the canvas.

8. A method, comprising:

receiving a directive from a first device, the directive being associated with a symbol displayed on a display screen of the first device;

storing the directive in a memory; and

sending the directive to a second device when a user-selected indicator is received, the user-selected indicator being associated with an area on the display screen of the first device uniquely associated with the second device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the user-selected indicator is received in response to a user initiated indication on the display screen associated with moving the symbol in a direction of the area on the display screen.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the user-selected indicator is received in response to a user initiated indication within the area on the display screen.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the directive contains an image resource.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the directive includes a behavior profile having information about a behavior of the symbol.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the directive is a first directive, the symbol is a first symbol, the user-selected indicator is a first user-selected indicator and the area is a first area, the method further comprising:

receiving a second directive from the first device, the second directive being associated with a second symbol displayed on the display screen of the first device;

storing the second directive in the memory; and

sending the second directive to a third device when a second user-selected indicator is received, the second user-selected indicator being associated with a second area on the display screen of the first device uniquely associated with the third device.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the directive is sent to the second device when the second device is active at a time subsequent to the receiving the directive from the first device.

15. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

defining the area on the display of the first device; and

associating the area on the display of the first device with the second device.

16. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

sending a notification to the second device prior to sending the directive to the second device.

17. A device, comprising:

a processor;

a display screen; and

a memory containing instructions to cause the processor to uniquely associate a portion of the display screen with a remote mobile device, the processor configured to send a directive to the remote mobile device when the processor receives a signal indicating an action was performed within the portion of the display screen uniquely associated with the remote mobile device, the directive being associated with at least one symbol.

18. The device of claim 17, wherein the signal indicating the action was performed is received when a user enters the at least one symbol within the portion of the display screen.

19. The device of claim 17, wherein the signal indicating the action was performed is received when a user moves the at least one symbol in the direction of the portion of the display screen.

20. The device of claim 17, wherein the portion of the display screen is a first portion of the display screen, the remote mobile device being a first remote mobile device, the memory containing instructions to cause the processor to uniquely associate a second portion of the display screen with a second remote mobile device, the first portion of the display screen being mutually exclusive from the second portion of the display screen.