Patent ID: 8473850
Filing Date: 2013-06-25
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: displaying content generated by an application executing on a presenter device associated with a first user participating in a collaboration session in a window on a display of the presenter device in accordance with a window status assigned to the window, the window status being either a shared window status in which the corresponding window and its contents are rendered as displayable content on another device in the collaboration session or a hidden window status in which the corresponding window and its contents are excluded from being rendered as the displayable content on the other device; providing the displayable content from the presenter device to an attendee device associated with a second user participating in the collaboration session for display on a display of the attendee device during the collaboration session; indicating on the display of the presenter device the window status of the window by a graphical property of a frame that surrounds the window on the display of the presenter device; changing the window status of the window upon activation of a control on the frame that surrounds the window; and excluding the window from the displayable content in response to the window status thereof being changed to the hidden window status or including the window in the displayable content in response to the window status thereof being changed to the shared window status.