Patent ID: 7685238

Claim:
Method, comprising: running one or more application programs on a presentation device configured to run said application programs and configured to show data content of said one or more application programs on a display screen of said presentation device and on an external viewing device in communication connectivity with the presentation device when the presentation device is in an all share public mode operative state, at least one of said one or more application programs comprising a presentation application program and at least one of said one or more application programs comprising a notification application program; identifying each of said one or more notification application programs; marking each of said identified one or more notification application programs with an issue notification all share public mode permission status to indicate that a respective one of said one or more notification application programs is permitted or not permitted to issue messages when said presentation device is in an all share public mode operative state; including an inquiry sequence in the notification application program to determine when the presentation device is in an all share public mode operative state; determining if the notification application program is permitted to issue messages in response to the presentation device being in an all share public mode operative state, and displaying the message data content on the display screen of the presentation device and on the external viewing device in communication connectivity with the presentation device in response to determining the notification application program is permitted to issue messages.