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Erkki Antero Savilampi

Timo Eemeli Nummenmaa

Joona Antero Laukkanen

Wouter Walmink

Alexander Rulkens

Jussi Henrikki Lahdenniemi

Alexander Wilhelm Maria Barbara Rulkens

Timo Jaakko Tapani Elomaa

Pertti Tapani Saarinen

Alexander (Alex) Rulkens

A computer program product for providing a graphical user interface for displaying of and enabling cooperative use of resources on a display of a computing device includes computer readable code means, the computer readable code means when executed by a processor device, being configured to provide an environment, the environment being configured to represent the resources on the display of the computing device, provide a first viewport to at least a portion of the environment on the display of the computing device, enable a resource to be added to the environment and be viewed within the first viewport and enable the resource to be acted upon within the first viewport.

System and method for cooperative sharing of resources of an environment

Sharing resources by users of computing devices includes providing, at each computing device, a respective viewport to a common desktop environment that has the shared resources. The desktop is independently viewable and independently navigable through each respective viewport. Furthermore, each of the resources is independently viewable and able to be independently acted upon through each respective viewport. One or more resources of each computing device may be added to the desktop environment through the respective viewport of the computing device. A search user interface is provided for text string searching of resources of a respective viewport by a user at the computing device of the respective viewport; and an application launcher view user interface is provided for launching applications, which is viewable by clicking on an open space of the desktop environment as seen through the respective viewport, and by which launchable applications are searchable.

User interaction with desktop environment

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Kangasala, Finland

Erkki Antero Savilampi