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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2018
Filed:
May. 26, 2009
Russ Burtner, Everett, WA (US);
Kevin Russ, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ian Sands, Seattle, WA (US);
John Snavely, Seattle, WA (US);
Russ Burtner, Everett, WA (US);
Kevin Russ, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ian Sands, Seattle, WA (US);
John Snavely, Seattle, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A computing system causes a plurality of display devices to display user interfaces containing portions of a canvas shared by a plurality of users. The canvas is a graphical space containing discrete graphical elements located at arbitrary locations within the canvas. Each of the discrete graphical elements graphically represents a discrete resource. When a user interacts with a resource in the set of resources, the computing system modifies the canvas to include an interaction element indicating that the user is interacting with the resource. The computer system then causes the display devices to update the user interfaces such that the user interfaces reflect a substantially current state of the canvas. In this way, the users may be able to understand which ones of the users are interacting with which ones of the resources.