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Bi-directional information exchange mechanism for collaborative network navigation among a group of user terminals
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Inventors: Choung, Byung-Sun; Gula, Robert;
Assignee: NCR Corporation (Dayton, OH)
Primary Examiner: Nguyen; Chau
Assistant Examiner: Nguyen; Phuongchau Ba
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Tuo; Ying Lowe Hauptman Gopstein Gilman & Berner
A collaborative navigation server is able to share network navigation information among a group of user terminals. The server can designate one of the user terminals as a leading terminal, so that the location information of information pages are relayed to all following terminals of the group, while a leading terminal is navigating through the information pages by using its browser. The server is also able to revoke the current leading terminal and designate a following terminal as a new leading terminal and re-designate the previous leading terminal as a following terminal. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION In one aspect, the invention provides a method for exchanging information retrieved from a plurality of information repositories among a group of terminals.
The method comprising the steps of: (A) designating one of the terminals as a leading terminal and the other terminals as following terminals, step (A) further including the steps of: (a.
1) locating an information section in one of said information repositories by said leading terminal designated in step (A); (a.
2) collecting location information of said information section; (a.
3) sending said location information to said following terminals; and (a.
4) locating said information section by said following terminals based on said location information; and (B) designating another one of terminals as a leading terminal, and re-designating said leading terminal designated in step (A) as a following terminal, step (B) further including the steps of: (b.
1) locating an information section in one of said information repositories by said leading terminal designated in step (B); (b.
2) collecting location information of said information section; (b.
3) sending said location information to said following terminals; and (b.
4) locating said information section by said following terminals based on said location information.
In another aspect, the invention provides a method for exchanging information retrieved from a plurality of information repositories among a group of terminals.
The method comprising the steps of: (A) designating one of the terminals as a leading terminal and the other terminals as following terminals, step (A) further including the steps of: (a.
1) locating an information section in one of said information repositories by said leading terminal designated in step (A); (a.
2) collecting location information of said information section; (a.
3) sending said location information to said following terminals; and (a.
4) locating said information section by said following terminals based on said location information; (B) receiving a request, from one of said following terminals, to be a leading terminal; and (C) designating the following terminal that has sent said request as a leading terminal, and re-designating said leading terminal designated in step (A) as a following terminal, step (C) further including the steps of: (c
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