Permitting participant configurable view selection within a screen sharing session

摘要

A screen sharing session between a participating computer and a presenting computer can be established. A copy of a graphical user interface screen from the presenting computer can be presented within a display on the participating computer. A selection of the sub-portion of the copy of the graphical user interface screen from the participating computer can be received. Boundaries of the sub-portion can be determined and can be transmitted from the participating computer to the presenting computer. Responsive to receiving the boundaries, the remotely located computer can define the sub-portion of the graphical user interface screen of the presenting computer. The defined sub-portion of the graphical user interface screen can be conveyed over a network from the presenting computer to the participating computer without conveying data for other portions of the graphical user interface screen.

主权项

1. A system for improving application sharing comprising:
one or more processors; one or more non-transitory storage mediums storing program instructions that are executed by at least one of the one or more processors; a screen sharing engine, comprising at least a portion of the program instructions, configured to selectively share screen comprising a first and a second user-specified portion of a shared content within a screen sharing session of a multi-sectioned application having three or more distinct GUI sections each being a GUI frame of the multi-sectioned application, said distinct GUI sections comprising a first section corresponding to the first user-selected portion, a second section corresponding to the second user-specified portion, and a third section of a presenting computing device to a participating computing device in a real-time or a near real-time, without conveying data associated with non-user-specified portions of the screen sharing session, wherein the non-user specified portions comprises at least the third section, wherein the first and the section user-specified portion is determined by a participant utilizing the participating computing device, wherein the first and the second user specified portion presented within the participating computing device is displayed differently than the non-user specified portions on the presenting computing device, wherein the difference is at least one of an aspect ratio, a resolution, and a color depth; and a data store, within at least one of the one or more non-transitory storage mediums, able to persist at least one of a mapping and a user preference, wherein the mapping associates at least one of a position and a dimension of the portion, wherein the user preference is associated with the first section and the second section, wherein the first section, the second section, and the third section each correspond to a frame of the multi-sectioned application.