Patent ID: 7877692

Claim:
An accessible display system comprising: a first computing device; a display device operatively coupled with the first computing device; and access control means in data communication with the display device and with the first computing device; wherein the access control means is further in data communication with a plurality of associated mobile computing devices; wherein the access control means is adapted to operate in one of a first operation mode, a second operation mode, and a third operation mode in accordance with a control mode input received from a user of the first computing device or the plurality of associated mobile computing devices; wherein the access control means is adapted to control access to the display device, in accordance with the operation mode of the access control means, by selectively allowing exclusive access to the display device by only one of the first computing device or the plurality of associated mobile computing devices at a time as a currently associated computing device, wherein: in the first operation mode, the access control means is adapted to deny access to the display device by a second computing device while the currently associated computing device has exclusive access to the display device; in the second operation mode, the access control means is adapted to allow exclusive access to the display device by the second computing device by switching access from the currently associated computing device to the second computing device; and in the third operation mode, the access control means is adapted to: communicate a request from the second computing device for access to the display device to a user of the currently associated computing device; to receive decision data for the access from the user of the currently associated computing device; and to grant exclusive access to the display device by the second computing device by switching access from the currently associated computing device to the second computing device responsive only to the decision data of the user of the currently associated computing device granting permission to the second computing device; and wherein the display device is adapted for providing feedback to the currently associated computing device.