Keith Raniere's Intelligent Switching System Patent
A method of conferencing over an Internet network, comprising the steps of: retrieving by at least two storage devices, a set of data objects from a host computer; processing the set of data objects in each storage device, each storage device located at a respective user site and having a storage system for data object storage, wherein the processing step occurs prior to a conference over the Internet network; operationally attaching a display system to at least one storage device; operationally connecting the user site into the conference; selecting a data object from the set of data objects and transmitting a conference control signal to other user sites to indicate the selected data object; and receiving the conference control signal and displaying the selected data object on the display system in response to the conference control signal.