Patent ID: 8990677
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: at least two computing appliances, each of the computing appliances for use by a respective user; wherein each of the computing appliances is comprised of a memory, a communications interface, an input apparatus, and a display apparatus; wherein each said display apparatus provides a respective display presentation of a display image comprised of a common shared underlying image; wherein the respective input apparatus is responsive to input by the respective user to provide annotation data representative of a display image of annotations associated with the respective user and made to appear relative to the display presentation of the common shared underlying image; control logic coordinating the storage and retrieval of the annotation data in the memory responsive to the communications via the communications interface, display logic providing and coordinating the display presentation provided on the display apparatus of each of a plurality of the computing appliances to, and upon which a plurality of the users are able to commonly collaborate by associating the annotations with the respective user providing the input, for each of a plurality of the annotations and a plurality of the users; wherein the communications interface provides data communications between the computing appliances; and wherein the display presentation on the display apparatus of the at least two of the computing appliances each provides a combined display presentation comprised of a display the common shared underlying image and selected ones of the annotations shown as made relative to and associated with the respective user for at least one of the respective users, wherein within the combined display presentation, the display image of the annotations for the at least one of the respective users is shown in the combined display presentation as aligned to and overlaid atop of the common shared underlying image.