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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2015
Steelcase Inc., Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Robert Poel, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Darrin Sculley, Byron Center, MI (US);
Steelcase Inc., Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Abstract
A method and system of facilitating a collaboration session among a plurality of conferees including at least first and second conferees using first and second different interface devices that includes first and second display screens, respectively, the method comprising the steps of presenting a first session interface on the first display screen, the session interface including a session queue, a first sharing window and a first private window, the session queue including a list of documents uploaded to the session by at least one of the conferees and presenting a second session interface on the second display screen, the second session interface including the session document queue, a second sharing window and a second private window, wherein either of the first or second conferee can open any document in the session queue in their sharing window and any document in the session queue in their private window at any time during a conference and wherein, any change in the document opened in either of the first or second sharing windows is mirrored in the other of the sharing windows.