Patent ID: 6502126
Filing Date: 2002-12-31
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
A computer system having:a customized data and/or video conference (DVC) application; a general purpose personal conference (GPPC) application; and a DVC application runtime synchronizer (RS) interposed between the customized DVC application and the GPPC application, the customized DVC application being incorporated with instances of prepackaged control objects of a prepackaged object-oriented DVC application programming toolkit (PK) to exploit conferencing services of the GPPC application during operation in managing a connected remote customized DVC application that is similarly constituted, and the DVC application RS comprising a plurality of runtime management objects for complementing the incorporated prepackaged control object instances to manage runtime interactions between the customized DVC application and the connected remote customized DVC application, so that the customized DVC application is automatically synchronized to the connected remote customized DVC application to exchange information directly as well as complemented on another computer system.