Patent ID: 9185150
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for sharing a screenshot in a communication session, the method comprising: running one or more software applications on a first computing device, while a communication application is running on the first computing device, wherein the first computing device is associated with a presenter in a communication session implemented via the communication application, and wherein the one or more software applications are different from the communication application; determining, at the first computing device and using the communication application, that the one or more images were added to an image library residing at the first computing device since a time when the communication application started running on the first computing device, wherein the image library residing at the first computing device stores one or more directories or folders of images, the one or more directories or folders of images comprising photographs taken using a camera of the first computing device and screenshots, wherein determining, using the communication application, that the one or more images were added to the image library comprises: in response to determining that the one or more images were added to the image library residing at the first computing device, facilitating transmission, using the communication application, of at least one of the one or more images from the first computing device to one or more second computing devices, wherein the one or more second computing devices are associated with one or more audience members in the communication session; initially transferring the communication application to a background of a display of the first computing device to facilitate the presenter working with the one or more software applications; and wherein the facilitating transmission further comprises automatically moving the communication application from the background of the display of the first computing device to a foreground of the display of the first computing device, in response to determining that the one or more images were added to the image library residing at the first computing device, to facilitate selection by the presenter of at least one of the one or more new images that were added to the image library during the last threshold time period for transmission to the one or more second computing devices, and automatically transmitting the at least one of the one or more images added to the image library during the last threshold time period in response to selection by the presenter of the at least one of the one or more images added to the image library during the last threshold time period.