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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 23, 1999
Adam J. Simonoff, Fairfax Station, VA (US);
Adam J. Simonoff, Fairfax Station, VA (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A method permitting collaboration between a plurality of users of incompatible hardware and/or operating system, includes steps for selectively generating predetermined objects, text objects, active hyperlink objects, active track objects, and freehand drawing objects, which are displayable at user-selected locations on the White Board screen of one of the users, transmitting all generated ones of the predetermined, the active hyperlink, the text, the active track, and the freehand drawing objects for selective distributions to each of the other users, accumulating the predetermined, the active hyperlink, the text, the active track, and the freehand drawing objects, and filtering the predetermined, the active hyperlink, the text, the active track, and the freehand drawing objects to thereby permit selective transmission of the predetermined, the active hyperlink, the text, the active track, and the freehand drawing objects to respective ones the other users.