Patent ID: 8280948

Claim:
A method for making data available to one or more participants of a live online collaboration session, the method being performed by one or more processors and comprising: on a terminal: capturing continuous data from operation of an application on the terminal; preparing a formatted continuous data set from the captured continuous data, wherein the formatted continuous data is suitable for client-server communications, and wherein the formatted continuous data set is configured with characteristics to enable a server to respond to requests from one or more terminals operated by any of the one or more participants by transmitting data from the formatted continuous data set to those terminals; and during the live online collaboration session, causing transmission of the formatted continuous data set to the server in one or more discrete and independent communications, wherein multiple data frames from the formatted continuous data set are each transmitted to the server in a single discrete and independent communication, wherein the server does not require the terminal or any of the one or more terminals operated by any of the one or more participants to be connected to the server concurrently to share the formatted continuous data set with the one or more terminals operated by any of the one or more participants during the live online collaboration session.