Method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for desktop sharing over a web socket connection in a networked collaboration workspace

Abstract

A system, method and computer-readable medium for desktop sharing over a web socket connection in a networked collaboration workspace, including transmitting a representation of a collaboration workspace hosted on a server and accessible to participants over a web socket connection, receiving a request to share at least one portion of a local desktop of a local computing device within the collaboration workspace and a selection of an area within the representation of the collaboration workspace, generating a streaming object configured to output a video stream of the at least one portion of the local desktop of the local computing device, and transmitting one or more commands to the server over the web socket connection, the one or more commands comprising the streaming object and information corresponding to the selected area and being configured to cause the server to insert the streaming object into the collaboration workspace at the selected area.

We claim: 
     
         1 . A method for desktop sharing over a web socket connection in a networked collaboration workspace, the method comprising:
 transmitting, on a user interface of a local computing device, a representation of a collaboration workspace hosted on a server and accessible to a plurality of participants on a plurality of computing devices over a web socket connection;   receiving, by the local computing device, a request to share at least one portion of a local desktop of the local computing device within the collaboration workspace and a selection of an area within the representation of the collaboration workspace;   generating, by the local computing device, a streaming object configured to output a video stream of the at least one portion of the local desktop of the local computing device; and   transmitting, by the local computing device, one or more commands to the server over the web socket connection, the one or more commands comprising the streaming object and information corresponding to the selected area and being configured to cause the server to insert the streaming object into the collaboration workspace at the selected area.