Keith Raniere's Intelligent Switching System Patent
Apparatus for conferencing, comprising: a host computer; at least two storage devices, each said storage device storing a set of data objects retrieved from the host computer for a conference, each said storage device located at a respective user site, and each said storage device having a storage system for data object storage; a display system, operationally attached to at least one storage device; a network for interconnecting the user site into the conference; wherein the user site includes: (i) a system for selecting a data object from the set of data objects; (ii) a control signal generator for transmitting a control signal indicating the selected data object to other user sites; (iii) a receiver for receiving the control signal, the selected data object being displayed on the display system in response to the control signal.