Patent ID: 7933956
Filing Date: 2011-04-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method to collaborate and interact multimedia tasks in a shared space within a network comprising the steps of: loading a media application with a plurality of tools into a users application in a user machine; logging in from the user machine to a shared space in a network from the user application to a host, wherein the shared space is created by interaction of executable codes in the host and the user application and the shared space is described by a session attribute list; loading a tool list from a file storage to activate corresponding tools from the media application; using a stage manager tool from the media application to stage to order and correlate a plurality of visual media-layers relative to a parent media-layer according to nonlinear spatial and relational coordinate data in the user application, wherein the stage manager tool further includes filtering designated media-layers to restrict viewing by the user; wherein the media-layers data are described by a file descriptor; inputting multimedia elements as media-layer modifications and updating the modifications in the file descriptor; and displaying the updated modifications by other user machines in the shared space in synchronous or asynchronous mode.