Systems and methodologies providing controlled voice and data communication among a plurality of computing appliances associated as team members of at least one respective team or of a plurality of teams and sub-teams within the teams

摘要

A system and methodology for communication and collaboration among a plurality of computing appliances associated as team members. The system is comprised of: at least one local communication means for use by at least one local team member, and conveying data (preferably media data and collaboration data); at least one other communication means for use by at least one other team member, and conveying data. Gateway means conveys data between each of the communication means. Network means links said at least one local communication means, and, said at least one other communication means, and enables the conveyance of the data. Display means provides a display presentation of a display image of display image data, for viewing by respective users at each of said at least one local communication means and said at least one other communication means. Input means provides annotation data representative of a respective user providing an input of annotations made relative to viewing the display of the common base image at a respective display apparatus at each of said at both the communication means (local and other). Storage means stores the annotation data as associated with the respective user at each of said local and said other communication means. Selection means permits selection as to which of the annotation data is selected annotation data. A display apparatus provides a combined display presentation responsive to the display image data and to the selected annotation data.

主权项

1. A system for collaborating among a plurality of users each said user utilizing an associated computing appliance having a display apparatus and an input apparatus providing an output of data having an associated image and associated with said user providing the input, the system comprising:
memory logic providing structured storage in a plurality of parts of a non-transitory memory; mapping logic exclusively associating each said user with at least one of the plurality of parts to provide for storage of the data associated with said user; input logic permitting at least two of the users to provide concurrent input of the data while viewing a same display presentation image on the display apparatus of the computing appliance associated with each said user; storage logic providing selective storage and retrieval of the data associated with each said user, for at least two said users, in the memory responsive to the mapping logic and the input logic; and, display logic providing an updated display presentation on the display apparatus of at least one of the computing appliances, responsive to the mapping logic and the storage.