Patent ID: 8918722

Claim:
A system for collaboration for use by a plurality of users, the system comprising: a plurality of computing appliances, each respective one of the plurality of computing appliances having a user input apparatus for use by a respective user; display apparatus, at an associated said computing appliance for at least two of the users, providing a display presentation of a base image permitting concurrent viewing by the at least two users; input logic permitting concurrent input via the user input apparatus, by each of the at least two of the users, responsive to a respective input of annotations by said respective said user, that provides an output of associated annotation data, and wherein each of said annotations have an associated appearance that is displayed as an image representative of the annotations; input mapping logic associating said annotation data for each said input with said user providing the input; non-transitory memory providing storage of the annotation data in an area of the memory that is associated with said user providing the input of said annotation data, responsive to the input mapping logic; coordinator logic providing selection of which of the annotations are selected annotations; and, display logic providing a display presentation of the selected annotations as part of the display presentation for at least one of the users responsive to the annotation data associated with the selected annotations.