Per-user application rendering in the presence of application sharing

US0079919l6B2 (12) Ullltfild States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 7,991,916 B2 Meek et al. (45) Date of Patent: Aug. 2, 2011 (54) PER-USER APPLICATION RENDERING IN 5,107,443 A Z 4/ 1992 Smith ei 81715/751 THE PRESENCE OF APPLICATION 2 gsgég e~t~~i~1~~ 711/152 SHARING 5:745:7ii A 4/1998 Kitahara et al. 5,758,110 A 5/1998 Boss et al. (75) Inventors: Brian Meek, Redmond, WA (U S); 5,760,769 A 6/ 1998 Petrie David Nichols, Redmond, WA (US) 2 §;f)T<-:tS§i1eia1~ . _ _ 6:029:i9i A 2/2000 K h‘ i (73) Assignee: l(VIici*osoft Corporation, Redmond, WA 6,i99,i i6 Bi ,,< 3/200i ML:;iil,Ta ““ H 7i9/3i0 US 6,219,057 B1* 4/2001 Carey et al. 345/419 6,223,212 B1 4/2001 Batty et al. ( * ) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term ofthis 6,285,363 B1 9/2001 Mai“ et 31' patent is extended or adjusted under 35 (Continued) U.S.C. l54(b) by 472 days. OTHER PUBLICATIONS (21) APP1~ N05 11/6371584 “Interwise ConnectTM”, http1//vvvvw.inteiwise.com/PDF/Inteiwise_ _ ProductDS.pdf. (22) Filed: Dec. 12, 2006 (Continued) (65) Prior Publication Data Primary Examiner — Dohm Chankong Us 2007/0156689 A1 Jul" 5’ 2007 (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm — Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC Related U.S. Application Data (63) Continuation-in-part of application No. 11/218,294, (57) ABSTRACT fiied 011 SeP- 1, 2005, HOW 1931- N0- 7,568,005 Architecture that allows users in an application sharing enviromnent to separately view portions of data that are not part of (51) 1111- C1- the current shared view. An enhanced application sharing G06F 15/16 (200901) component is provided that facilitates rendering the applicaG06F 1 7/00 (200901) tion data multiple times for a correspondingly similar number G06F 17/20 (200901) of simultaneous users, and sending the additional renderings (52) U-s- C1- ~~~~~~ ~- 709/248; 709/208; 709/ 227; 709/ 229; to the other users for interaction. Each user client includes an 709/ 204; 715/ 200; 715/ 203; 715/209; 715/ 733; application sharing viewer that composites the per-user ren715/751; 715/753; 715/759 derings onto the base shared image ofthe user client to create (58) Field of Classification Search ................ .. 715/200, a per-user view of the shared document. The enhanced shar715/203, 209, 733, 751, 753, 759; 709/ 248, ing component renders the portion of the data that is requested 709/208, 227, 229, 204 by the remote user as a bitmap and passes the bitmap along See application file for complete search history. with coordinate information to the client rendering program presentation with the shared data view. The coordinate infor(56) Refefellees Cited mation indicates where on the shared screen of the remote

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