Patent ID: 7835596

Claim:
A componentized application sharing system, the system comprising: a shared application host computer sharing images with at least a plurality of shared application viewer computers: a plurality of different pluggable image processing modules implemented on said shared application host computer, each of said different pluggable image processing modules conforming to a corresponding single interface expected by an application sharing module implemented on said shared application host computer, each of said different pluggable image processing modules being selectable to meet requirements of a shared application, said pluggable image processing modules comprising: a plurality of different pluggable image region selection modules configured to process selected image sub-partitions of shared application imagery, each of said different pluggable image region selection modules configured for selecting and ordering of processing of said selected image sub-partitions differently; a plurality of different image compression modules comprising image compression logic programmed to produce one of a smallest possible image size to provide a highest possible rate of transmission for a compressed image, a lowest level of image resolution loss to provide a highest level of image fidelity for a compressed image, and a moderate image size to provide an intermediate rate of transmission and an intermediate level of image fidelity for a compressed image; and a communicative coupling between the shared application host computer and the shared application viewer computers, for transmitting images.