Patent ID: 8217854
Filing Date: 2012-07-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for managing a multi-focus remote control session (RCS) within a computer system, said method comprising: registering to the RCS a UserID of each user of a plurality of users and at least one input device associated with the UserID of each user, wherein each user of the plurality of users is coupled to the RCS via a communication network, wherein the UserID of each user is a unique identifier of each user within the RCS, wherein the at least one input device associated with the UserID of each user is attached to the computer system, and wherein said registering results in the plurality of users having shared concurrent control of a computer screen of the computer system via the at least one input device associated with the UserID of each user; responsive to selection of a window within the computer screen by an input device of the at least one input device associated with the UserID of each user after each user has been registered to the RCS, providing focus to each selected window, wherein the focus provided to the selected windows are concurrently operative, wherein the focus provided to each window is specific to the UserID associated with the input device that selected the window, and wherein each selected window having focus is configured to be accessed and manipulated by only the at least one input device associated with the UserID to which the focus provided to each selected window is specific; and recording, in a computer readable medium of the computer system, the selected windows to which focus has been provided, wherein each selected window is recorded in association with the UserID to which the focus provided to each selected window is specific, wherein said registering, said providing focus, and said recording the selected windows are performed by program code while executing on a processor of a computer system that is coupled to the communication network.