Patent ID: 8838795

Claim:
A resource sharing system comprising: a host element; a shareable resource associated with the host element, the shareable resource comprising a video camera; and a presence server communicatively coupled to the host element, the presence server to operate in an instant messaging environment, the presence server comprising: a memory having machine readable instructions stored thereon; and a processor to execute the instruction to perform operations comprising: providing instant messaging presence information of the video camera, the instant messaging presence information providing availability status information of the video camera to a first guest element, the instant messaging presence information being determined based on an authorization procedure performed at the host element to authorize the first guest element to access the video camera and to not authorize a second guest element to access the video camera; and receiving, via the instant messaging environment, an access request from the first guest element requesting access to the video camera associated with the host element, the host element to send resource data comprising streaming video data provided by the video camera to the first guest element via an out-of-band transportation of the streaming video data from the host element to the first guest element occurring outside the instant messaging environment in response to the access request, the out-of-band transportation of the streaming video data to the first guest element occurring while the first guest element is concurrently sending further instant messaging.