Patent ID: 8875011

Claim:
A system for collaboration among a plurality of users, the system comprising: a plurality of computing appliances, each said computing appliance for use by a respective one said user, each said computing appliance comprised of a memory, a display apparatus providing a display presentation, and a communications interface; memory logic, structuring the memory to provides storage structured as a plurality of data layers in each said computing appliance; team logic associating at least two of the computing appliances to be members on a team; mapping logic associating each said data layer as an associated data layer that is associated with at least one said computing appliance; wherein the memory provides storage in the associated data layer, of annotation data representative of annotations having an associated annotation image, said annotations originated from said associated said computing appliance; wherein the communications interface at each of the at least two of the computing appliances on the team, communicates selected data from the data layer associated with one of said computing appliances on the team, for storage in a same said data layer in the memory of at least one other one of said computing appliances on the team, for each of at least two of the data layers; the system further comprising: display logic generating the display presentation on the display apparatus of at least one said computing appliance on the team, comprising a combined display presentation generated responsive to at least some of the annotation data stored in at least two of the data layers.