Network-attached display device as an attendee in an online collaborative computing session

摘要

In one embodiment, a network-attached display device (e.g., projector) may join an online collaborative computing session as an attendee. The display device may then receive data for the online collaborative computing session as an attendee over the computer network. As such, the display device may render images associated with being an attendee of the online collaborative computing session from the received data, and then visually display the images associated with the online collaborative computing session.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
obtaining information to allow a computer network-attached display device to receive data to operate as an attendee device of an online collaborative computing session; signing the network-attached display device into the online collaborative computing session as an attendee device using the obtained information, wherein no user is associated with the network-attached display device and wherein a plurality of other attendee devices and a presenter device each associated with a user are also signed into the online collaborative computing session; receiving, at the network-attached display device, data associated with a display of the presenter device in the online collaborative computing session; rendering, at the network-attached display device, images associated with the display of the presenter device from the received data; and visually displaying the images associated with the display of the presenter device at the network-attached display device.