Appeal No. 96-3059
Application No. 08/170,569
all the
claims in the application. An amendment after final rejection
was filed on July 10, 1995 but was denied entry by the
examiner. The disclosed invention pertains to a
method and apparatus for use in a multi-media collaborative
data processing system which includes a shared data collection
which is simultaneously accessible by a plurality of users
located at a plurality of terminals. Specifically, the
invention informs the users at each terminal of other users
who are actively engaged in a specific application and the
location of the other users within the application. The
location information is indicated by visual cues which are
displayed along a line parallel to the edge of an application
display window.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method in a multi-media collaborative data
processing system which includes a shared data collection
simultaneously accessible by a plurality of users of said
system and a network connecting a plurality of terminals for
communication, wherein each terminal has a display system and
a user input device, of graphically indicating the relative
location of said plurality of users within said shared data
collection, comprising the steps of:
2
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