Patent ID: 7157638

Claim:
A system for use by a plurality of users in providing a display presentation of a selected composition, said system comprising: an individual workstation comprising: a communication interface providing for communications with the respective workstation of composition data representative of at least one visual image of the selected composition; memory for providing local storage for storing the composition data responsive to the communications interface; an editing subsystem for providing edit data for locally generated visual edits of changes relative to the local visual display presentation of a respective portion of the visual image of the respective selected composition; the memory further providing for storing the edit data representative of the changes; a processing subsystem responsive to the memory and for generating a display presentation output; and a display apparatus for a local visual display presentation representative of a combined visual image of the respective selected composition, responsive to the processing subsystem; said system further comprising: a plurality of the individual workstations, comprising: means for communicating said edit data from a first one of the plurality of individual workstations to at least one other of the plurality of individual workstations, which provides a local presentation representative of the communicated edit data and the composition data for the selected composition.