Cooperative work support system for managing a window display

Patent 6308199 Issued on October 23, 2001. Estimated Expiration Date:

August 7, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventor

Katsurabayashi, Hiroshi

Assignee

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Application

No. 130515 filed on 08/07/1998

US Classes:

709/204, COMPUTER CONFERENCING709/203, Client/server709/205Cooperative computer processing

Examiners

Primary: Maung, Zarni

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Oliff & Berridge, PLC

Foreign Patent References

3-58658 JP. 03/12/1991
3-119476 JP. 05/12/1991
3-273443 JP. 12/12/1991

International Class

G06F 015/16

Foreign Application Priority Data

1997-08-11 JP

Abstract

In an application sharing system in which a plurality of users can make discussions using a relationship among pieces of information extending to a plurality of application windows, there is provided the ability to select windows to be displayed and windows to be hidden for each user. In the system, an application included in one computer is shared by a plurality of computers connected through a network and display screens produced by the application are shared. In a computer having the shared application, whether to display or hide, for each user, windows displayed in the course of screen display shared other computers is controlled by a display control unit. There is provided a user information management unit that manages user information indicating for each user whether to display or hide each window. The display control unit determines whether to display or hide for each user, using the user information in the user information management unit.

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