System and method for application viewing through collaborative web browsing session

• US 7,373,381 B2
• Filed: 05/11/2007
• Issued: 05/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Intercall Incorporated (West Corporation)
• Inventors: Rust, David Bradley
• Primary Examiner(s): MEKY, MOUSTAFA M
• Application Number:
  US11/747,753
• Publication Number:
  US 20070208808A1
• Time in Patent Office: 368 Days
• Field of Search: 709200-205, 709217-220
• US Class Current: 709/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A collaborative Web browsing session may take place over a network, allowing the Presenter on a first computer to direct the audio and visual components of a browser on one or more second computers. The Attendee on the second computer logs into a control site computer located on the Web and subsequently relinquishes Web browser control to the Presenter on the first computer. The collaborative Web browsing session (“session”), as created by the Presenter and witnessed by the Attendee, is comprised of a predetermined set of Web pages and slides. The present invention allows the Presenter of a collaborative Web browsing session to dynamically integrate a region of the Presenter'"'"'s display into the session. The Presenter configures the first computer to select a region on its display for integration into the session. Additionally, the Presenter configures keyboard combinations to execute the capture of the selected region. Upon capture, an image associated with the region is sent to the control site computer as part of the session. The control site computer incorporates the dynamically included image into the session and transmits the image to the second computer where the image is displayed for viewing by the Attendee.

Claims

1. A computer system including a first computer with a first display, a control site computer, and a second computer, wherein said first, control site, and second computers are coupled together through a computer network, said computer system comprising:

a selector for selecting a region on the first display;

a first transmitter coupled to the first computer for transmitting an image associated with said region to the control site computer;

a second transmitter coupled to the control site computer for transmitting said image to the second computer; and

a display coupled to the second computer for displaying the image on the second computer;

the first computer for selecting a hotkey that when executed, captures a previously selected region on the first display and incorporates the captured previously selected region into the image.