Patent ID: 8743022
Filing Date: 2014-06-03
Classification: G06F,G09G,H04L

Abstract:
1. A screen sharing system, comprising: a plurality of information processing apparatuses connected to each other via a data communication channel and configured to display a same content on their respective screens as a shared screen, wherein each of the information processing apparatuses includes wherein one of the information processing apparatuses that has acquired the operation right functions as a transmitting information processing apparatus and each of the other information processing apparatuses without the operation right functions as a receiving information processing apparatus; wherein at the transmitting information processing apparatus, wherein at the receiving information processing apparatus, the drawing unit draws the display object on the screen according to the operational information in the transmission data received from the transmitting information processing apparatus; and wherein in response to the operation right request, the operation right switching unit of the information processing apparatus enables receipt of the input operation on the information processing apparatus and reports the acquisition of the operation right to the other information processing apparatuses to request the other information processing apparatuses disable receipt of subsequent input operations on the other information processing apparatuses.