Presenting information in a conference

摘要

One conferencing system allows conference participants to share all or a portion of the display seen on their computer screens. The conferees may be at sites removed from each other, or may view a recorded presentation or archived conference at different times. Conference participants are either “presenters” who can modify the display or “attendees” who cannot modify the display. A pointer icon, which can be labeled to identify the conferee, is displayed on the shared image area. Each conferee can modify the position of his or her own pointer, even when not presenting, so that every participant can see what each conferee is pointing to, should a conferee choose to point to an element of the display. These and other features apply to other data streams shared in the conference or in meetings where there is no shared-image data stream.

主权项

1. A system for presenting information in a conference, the system comprising:
a processor; a memory; a server including the processor and memory, the server receiving a command from an attendee in the conference indicating a desire to present information to the conference, the server receiving the information to be presented in the conference, the information received from the attendee in a first form; and a program stored in memory and executed by the processor, the program when executed:
transcodes the information from the first form into a device-independent form,matches the form of the information to other attendee clients in the conference,transcodes the information from the device-independent form into at least one device-dependent form based on the matching, andtransmits the information in the device-dependent form to the other attendee clients in the conference.