Patent ID: 8756513

Claim:
A method for displaying a representation of a shared window on a viewing display of a viewing computing device in an application sharing environment, the application sharing environment further comprising a sharing computing device communicably linked to the viewing computing device and having associated therewith a sharer display upon which is displayed the shared window, the method comprising: receiving an entirety of the shared window wherein the shared window is a window of an application, the shared window of the application having both a document content area and an application artifact area; identifying, by a sharing process executing at the viewing computing device, the document content area of the shared window and the application artifact area of the shared window; displaying on the viewing display the document content area of the shared window of the application while omitting from the display the application artifact area of the shared window of the application, wherein the shared window is associated with an application running on the sharing computing device, and wherein the application artifact area comprises at least one graphical object actuatable by a user of the viewing computing device to affect the operation of the application; receiving an indication that control of the application running on the sharing computing device has been relinquished by a user of the sharing computing device and is ceded to a user of the viewing computing device; and automatically switching a mode of operation of the application sharing program running on the viewing computing device whereby the application artifact area of the shared window is represented on the viewing display.