Patent ID: 6785709
Filing Date: 2004-08-31
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A computer system having a prepackaged object-oriented data and/or video conference (DVC) application programming toolkit (PK) for building customized DVC applications, wherein the DVC application PK includes a prepackaged connection control object whose instance is to be incorporated in the customized DVC applications being built for facilitating accesses to conferencing services of a general purpose personal conference (GPPC) application during runtime operation to allow a local incorporating customized DVC application having a local GPPC application to connect to another remote incorporating customized DVC application having a remote GPPC application, and to interactively manage the connection, the local incorporating customized DVC application and the remote incorporating customized DVC application being independent of and separate from the local and remote GPPC applications, wherein the local and remote incorporating customized DVC applications each respectively utilize the conferencing services of their respective local or remote GPPC application.