Techniques for facilitating annotations

Abstract

Techniques for facilitating annotation of information. Techniques are provided that enable one or more users to annotate video information being displayed by an output device. Different annotation modes may be provided. For example, in one mode, a device is provided that can capture a video frame from video information being output by an output device. One or more users may then annotate the captured video frame. The annotations may be communicated to the output device such that the output displays the captured video frame along with annotations made to the video frame. Other annotation modes are also provided.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method of facilitating annotations, the method comprising:
 capturing, at a first device, a video frame from a video stream received by the first device from a second device, wherein the capturing is performed in response to a request received by the first device from a client device in a set of one or more client devices, the captured video frame corresponding to a video frame being displayed by an output device; and   enabling the captured video frame to be annotated using a client device from the set of client devices.