Patent ID: 8661355
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: participating in an online collaborative computing session by a presenter device, wherein either an entire viewable area of a display device or a portion of the entire viewable area is designated for transmission to one or more attendee devices for the online collaborative computing session; determining one or more shared application windows on the presenter device; determining an area of the display of the presenter device having viewable shared application windows; determining a plurality of areas of the display of the presenter device having viewable non-shared application windows; generating a plurality of semi-transparent windows sized and positioned to the areas having the viewable non-shared application windows; graying out each of one or more non-shared application windows on the display of the presenter device by covering the non-shared application windows with overlaid semi-transparent windows, wherein the semi-transparent windows are sized and positioned to a total area of the display of the presenter device subtracted by the area having the viewable shared application windows; restricting input from one or more presenter interface devices associated with the presenter device to the plurality of semi-transparent windows; and passing inputs from the one or more presenter interface devices through the semi-transparent window to a covered non-shared application window beneath the semi-transparent window.