Patent ID: 9716861
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04M,H04N

Claim:
1. A method of facilitating a collaboration session among a plurality of conferees including at least first and second conferees using first and second different interface devices that includes first and second display screens, respectively, the method comprising the steps of: presenting a first session interface on the first display screen, the session interface including a session queue, a first sharing window and a first private window, the first sharing window, the first private window and the session queue simultaneously presented on the first display screen, the session queue including a list of documents uploaded to the session by at least one of the conferees, wherein the first conferee can open any document in the session queue in the first sharing window and any document in the session queue in the first private window at any time during a conference; and presenting a second session interface on the second display screen, the second session interface including the session document queue, a second sharing window and a second private window, wherein the second conferee can open any document in the session queue in the second sharing window and any document in the session queue in the second private window at any time during a conference; and wherein, any change in the document opened in either of the first or second sharing windows is mirrored in the other of the first and second sharing windows; wherein at least a subset of the documents in the session queue are multipage documents and wherein first and second instances of a first multipage document are opened to different pages in the first private space and in the first sharing space, respectively, and wherein either of the first and second session interfaces is useable to page through the second instance of the first multipage document in an egalitarian fashion.