Abstract: Various embodiments enable one or more appliances to participate in a shared workspace. The shared workspace can include a single appliance, multiple appliances, a single meeting room, multiple meeting rooms, or any combination thereof. The state of various meeting participants can be identified and one or more rules can be applied to the participants' state to provide an outcome. An “outcome” can be thought of as an action that is to be performed responsive to the identified state. An asset interaction control feature can be selected based on the outcome. The asset interaction control feature controls, in some manner, a participant's interaction with one or more assets that are part of the shared workspace. The asset interaction control feature is then applied to at least one of the assets.

Abstract: Techniques are described to support undo and redo operations in connection with a digital ink canvas on an appliance that can take part in a collaboration amongst multiple appliances that can share content. The digital ink canvas is a digital area that accepts inputs from a user and renders a digital stroke. The described techniques make use of a navigable history palette which includes individual history entries that each provide a visual representation of a state of the digital ink canvas at some point during the collaboration. The history palette provides a navigable user interface instrumentality which permits panning through the history palette to enable user to select a particular visual representation. The digital ink canvas is then returned to the state associated with the selected visual representation. The selected visual representation can be provided across the appliances participating in the virtual collaboration.

Abstract: Techniques are described to support undo and redo operations in connection with a digital ink canvas on an appliance that can take part in a collaboration amongst multiple appliances that can share content. The digital ink canvas is a digital area that accepts inputs from a user and renders a digital stroke. The described techniques make use of a navigable history palette which includes individual history entries that each provide a visual representation of a state of the digital ink canvas at some point during the collaboration. The history palette provides a navigable user interface instrumentality which permits panning through the history palette to enable user to select a particular visual representation. The digital ink canvas is then returned to the state associated with the selected visual representation. The selected visual representation can be provided across the appliances participating in the virtual collaboration.

Abstract: Various embodiments enable one or more appliances to participate in a shared workspace. The shared workspace can include a single appliance, multiple appliances, a single meeting room, multiple meeting rooms, or any combination thereof. The state of various meeting participants can be identified and one or more rules can be applied to the participants' state to provide an outcome. An “outcome” can be thought of as an action that is to be performed responsive to the identified state. An asset interaction control feature can be selected based on the outcome. The asset interaction control feature controls, in some manner, a participant's interaction with one or more assets that are part of the shared workspace. The asset interaction control feature is then applied to at least one of the assets.

Abstract: Techniques are described to transcode and control distribution of assets as part of a shared workspace. An asset is received for distribution as part of a shared workspace implemented using a plurality of appliances communicatively coupled, one to another, via a network. One or more settings are obtained that dictate which transformations are to be applied to the asset to form the plurality of versions of the asset. The asset is transcoded into a plurality of versions of the asset. Each of the plurality of versions has a difference, one to another, in a respective one of a plurality of characteristics of the asset. Distribution is controlled of the plurality of version of the asset as part of the shared workspace to the plurality of appliances.

Abstract: Cross platform shared asset techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a version of an asset is received that is configured to support consumption via a corresponding application. Another version is formed of the asset as one or more images from one or more pages of the asset. Responsive to receipt of a request from an appliance to obtain the asset for consumption as part of a shared workspace, a determination is made as to whether the appliance is to consume the asset using the application. Responsive to the determination that the asset is not to be consumed by the appliance using the corresponding application, a communication is formed for receipt by the particular appliance via a network that includes at least said image from the other version of the asset.

Abstract: Various embodiments enable user-applied annotations that arecreated and visually associated with an asset on one appliance to be shared amongst and synchronized between other appliances working together in a collaborative workspace environment. As an annotation is made, a stroke collection is defined and provided into a formatted list that represents the annotation. The formatted list is transmitted to a collaboration server which then notifies other appliances of the new annotation. When the other appliances request the formatted list, the collaborative server transmits the formatted list to the other applications so that the new annotation can be rendered on a corresponding display device.