Patent ID: 9569164
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: G06F,G09G

Claim:
1. An apparatus comprising: a network component that communicates with a plurality of secondary devices over a data network, each secondary device communicating with a distinct secondary display, wherein at least one secondary device comprises a touch device having a secondary display comprising a touch screen; a processor; a memory that stores code executable by the processor to: generate a central image for a central display comprising a touch screen, the central display viewable concurrently by users of each secondary display; generate a common visual map associated with a plurality of secondary displays and containing visual data private to users of the secondary devices, the common visual map comprising a plurality of distinct secondary images for each secondary display, discover an additional secondary device; associate the additional secondary device with the central display in response to discovering the additional secondary device; add an additional secondary display of the additional secondary device to the common visual map; generate a first visual component in the central image in response to receiving an instruction to generate the first visual component from a secondary device; send a second visual component to one or more of the plurality of secondary devices based on a location in the common visual map and in response to a touch gesture on the central display, the central image remaining distinct from each secondary image; and alter an image of a first secondary display of the common visual map in response to a touch gesture on a second secondary display of the common visual map by removing a visual component of an image of the second secondary display and generating the visual component in the image of the first secondary display.