System And Methodology For Collaboration in Groups With Split Screen Displays

摘要

A system and methodology for collaboration. A plurality of computing appliances, each respective one of the plurality of computing appliances having a display apparatus and having a user input apparatus to provide respective annotation data as input for the respective user to permit the respective user to provide annotations which appear within a display presentation as an image for viewing and representative of the annotations. A first subset of the plurality of computing appliances is comprised of at least two of the computing appliances that form members of a group. Separate selective communication of the annotation data is provided among the members of the group. There is selective display of the annotation data to selected ones of the members of the group. The annotation data is selectively coupled for distribution to other ones of the plurality of computing appliances in the group for selective viewing at certain other ones of the plurality of computing appliances. Selection logic permits at least one of the users' to selectively choose which of the other users within the group are selected ones that are to have their corresponding annotations viewed as part of the display presentation for the at least one of the users. In one embodiment, a plurality of separate screen display presentations are provided in a split-screen combined presentation to each of the respective users at each said respective computing appliances. Coordinator logic selects which of the users' annotations are utilized in generated each of the display presentation for each of the respective users.