Document View Mode for Application Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current application sharing systems inefficiently display shared windows, often showing unnecessary toolbars and menus to viewers, consuming valuable display space and reducing readability due to scaling issues.
Innovation Solution
A viewer-activated document view mode that limits the display to document content only, omitting toolbars and menus, and dynamically adjusts the viewer display to show application artifacts when relevant, maximizing usable space and improving readability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the shared window is displayed as it appears on the sharer's display including toolbars and menus, then the complete application interface is shown to the viewer, but valuable viewer display space is consumed by artifacts that the viewer cannot activate and that convey no useful information
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and removes application artifacts (toolbars, menus, status bars) from the shared window display sent to the viewer. The server identifies these non-essential elements and excludes them from the transmitted display data, sending only the relevant document content area to the viewer's client, thereby freeing up display space while preserving all necessary information.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the application window into distinct functional areas: essential document content areas and non-essential artifact areas. By separating these elements, the system can selectively transmit only the document content portions to the viewer, eliminating the need to display inactive artifacts while maintaining complete access to the document information.
2Area of stationary object
If the shared display is scaled down to fit within the viewer's display area, then the entire shared window fits on the viewer screen, but the document area becomes difficult for the viewer to read or discern
Solution Approach 1:
By removing toolbars and menus from the transmitted display content, the patent increases the proportion of useful document content that can be displayed at any given scale. This extraction allows the document area to occupy a larger portion of the viewer's screen, improving readability without requiring excessive scaling that would degrade text quality.
3Adaptability or versatility
If toolbars, menus and other application artifacts are displayed to the viewer, then the complete application interface is visible, but these artifacts consume valuable viewer area where useful data could be displayed and are not usable by the viewer
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes application artifacts that provide no functional value to the viewer. Since viewers cannot activate or interact with these elements during application sharing, extracting and eliminating them from the display stream improves viewer usability by dedicating the entire display area to viewable document content.
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AI summary
An improved application sharing system and method are described wherein a display of shared information is constructed such that application artifacts that are of no use to the viewer are not displayed to the viewer. In this way, a greatest possible portion of a viewing area can be used to display document content rather than such artifacts. In an embodiment, the functionality of reducing the display in this manner is engageable and disengageble by a viewing user. In a further embodiment of the invention, the functionality of reducing the display is automatically engaged and disengaged based on actions of a sharing user with respect to the shared information.