Integration of Videoconferencing with Interactive Electronic Whiteboard Appliances

摘要

An interactive whiteboard appliance includes the capability to integrate and manage, in a user-friendly manner, interactive electronic whiteboard sessions and videoconferencing sessions between the interactive whiteboard appliance and one or more client devices. An application manager executing on the interactive whiteboard appliance manages an interactive whiteboard application and a collaboration client executing on the interactive whiteboard appliance to maintain a videoconferencing session window on top of an interactive whiteboard session window during videoconferencing sessions. The application manager also provides graphical user interface controls displayed on the interactive whiteboard appliance that allow users to initiate and manage interactive electronic whiteboard sessions and videoconferencing sessions, including switching between interactive electronic whiteboard sessions and videoconferencing sessions. The approach may be implemented on interactive whiteboard appliances that are not natively configured to allow users to select and/or switch control between an interactive whiteboard session window and a videoconferencing session window.

主权项

1. An interactive whiteboard appliance comprising:
a display; a communications interface; one or more processors; one or more memories; an operating system executing on the interactive whiteboard appliance and having an application programming interface that provides access to functionality supported by the operating system; an interactive whiteboard application configured to display an interactive whiteboard window on the display of the interactive whiteboard appliance; a collaboration client configured to support one or more videoconferencing sessions with one or more collaboration clients executing on one or more client devices that are external to the interactive whiteboard appliance including displaying a videoconferencing window on the display of the interactive whiteboard appliance; an application manager configured to:
cause a menu to be displayed on the display of the interactive whiteboard appliance that includes one or more options for switching between the interactive whiteboard application window and the videoconferencing window,detect a user selection of a particular option from the one or more options for switching between the interactive whiteboard window and the videoconferencing window,manage display of the interactive whiteboard window and the videoconferencing window in response to detecting the user selection of the particular option from the one or more options for switching between the interactive whiteboard application window and the videoconferencing window.