Simultaneous input system for web browsers and other applications

Abstract

In a computing environment having a multiple input detection system including a detector that detects and transmits multiple simultaneous user inputs from different users at a same time, a method for processing inputs from different users across multiple application windows of one or more applications displayed on a single display of a user interface, resulting in a multi-user graphical user interface (GUI), the computing environment running an operating system (OS) designed to run with a single user GUI, the method including determining, in a primary application, separate from the OS, that a first user input corresponds to a first window and a second user input corresponds to a second window, the primary application sending the first and second user inputs to first and second secondary applications that run in parallel with the primary application, the first and second secondary applications being designed to run with the OS.

1 .- 11 . (canceled) 
     
     
         12 . In a computing environment, the computing environment having a multiple input detection system including a detector that detects and transmits multiple simultaneous user inputs from different users at a same time, a method for processing inputs from different users across multiple application windows of one or more applications displayed on a single display of a user interface, resulting in a multi-user graphical user interface (GUI), the single display having a canvas displaying multiple application windows, the method comprising:
 dividing the single display into at least two section, each section providing an independent view of the canvas, wherein a canvas maneuver within a section affects only a view within that section.   
     
     
         13 . The method as claimed in  claim 12 , wherein the canvas maneuver includes at least one of panning, pinching and zooming. 
     
     
         14 . The method as claimed in  claim 12 , wherein a window maneuver of a window within a section affects a view of the window for all sections viewing that window. 
     
     
         15 . (canceled)