Patent ID: 9699411
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04M,H04N

Claim:
1. An interactive whiteboard appliance comprising: a display; a communications interface; one or more processors; one or more memories; an operating system executing on the interactive whiteboard appliance and having an application programming interface that provides access to functionality supported by the operating system; an interactive whiteboard application configured to display an interactive whiteboard window on the display of the interactive whiteboard appliance, wherein the interactive whiteboard window includes an interactive whiteboard content area for displaying content that is shared with one or more client devices that are external to the interactive whiteboard appliance; a collaboration client configured to support one or more videoconferencing sessions with one or more collaboration clients executing on the one or more client devices that are external to the interactive whiteboard appliance including displaying a videoconferencing window on the display of the interactive whiteboard appliance, wherein the videoconferencing window supports a videoconferencing session and is overlaid on top of the interactive whiteboard content area of the interactive whiteboard window, such that both the content and the videoconferencing window are displayed simultaneously; an application manager configured to: