Patent ID: 6400380
Filing Date: 2002-06-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method for an X windows conferencing enabler to support applications that use non-shareable colorcells while running in a conference in which a plurality of X server participants differ in their support of visual classes comprises the steps of:allocating non-shareable colorcells for a requesting application; distributing all of said non-shareable colorcell requests to each participant in said conference that supports said requests; for any participants not supporting said requests, sending a No Operations request instead of said allocation requests; initializing said non-shareable colorcells for said requesting application for all participants supporting said requests; automatically sending an AllocColor or AllocNamedColor order in place of an initialization request to each participant not supporting said requests; and displaying in a conference said non-shareable colorcells in colors for each X server participant that supports said requests and displaying colorcells that are as close to that requested by said requesting application as allowed by a display used by each said X server participant that does not support said requests.