Appeal No. 96-2517
Application 08/425,309
The invention is directed to workstation conferencing. More particularly, each one of multiple
workstation users is permitted to control pointers during a workstation conference while each pointer is
clearly associated with its respective user.
Representative independent claim 41 is reproduced as follows:
41. A method of maintaining conference communication by a first workstation participating
with respective other workstations of a network during a user conference, wherein each workstation
includes a display device on which is displayed a conference window with a pointer icon and a mouse
pointer device that includes a mouse button and controls movement of the pointer icon as the first
workstation mouse pointer device is moved, the method comprising the steps of:
generating a signal representation of each conference participant workstation user for display on
the first workstation and respective other workstation display devices;
displaying the conference participant representations in the conference window of the first
workstation and respective other workstation display devices;
determining when one of the other respective conference participants has pressed the mouse
button of that participant’s workstation mouse device;
determining the display device pointer icon location of the button pressing conference
participant; and
displaying a pointer arrow on the display device of the first workstation from the display device
representation of the button pressing conference participant to the determined display pointer icon
location of the button pressing conference participant.
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