Patent ID: 6115027
Filing Date: 2000-09-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A cursor synchronization system for synchronously displaying a cursor on a plurality of display systems connected together via a network, comprising:(A) a plurality of agents, each being coupled to one of the display systems to cause the respective display system to display a compressed cursor movement wherein each of the agents does not generate any control request;(B) a cursor synchronizer coupled to the agents wherein the cursor synchronizer captures and compresses the cursor movement generated from an external cursor generator within a predetermined time interval, wherein the cursor synchronizer synchronously sends the compressed cursor movement to each of the agents such that the cursor movement is synchronously displayed on each of the display systems with minimized network traffic through the network, wherein the agents only receive the compressed cursor movement from the cursor synchronizer and do not provide any cursor movement or control request input to the cursor synchronizer.