ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,625, issued on July 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Controlled screen sharing" was invented by Paritosh Ranjan (Kolkata, India), Prodip Roy (Kolkata, India), Bhubaneswar Padhan (Kolkata, India) and Prosanta Saha (Kolkata, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for controlled screen sharing is provided. The embodiment may include detecting a user intention to begin a screen sharing session during a web conference. The embodiment may also include receiving a user selection of a first view to display during the scr...