OBJECT GROUP PROCESSING AND SELECTION GESTURES FOR GROUPING OBJECTS IN A COLLABORATION SYSTEM

摘要

A collaboration system can be configured to support a large number of active clients in a workspace where the workspace is distributed into diverse groups of objects. While participating in the workspace, a first active client can consolidate a plurality of objects into a group. Actions taken on this group maintain the proportions and relative positions of the objects within the group. These actions are distributed to a second active client in the workspace wherein the second active client applies these actions to their copies of the objects thereby synchronizing the viewports of the first and second active clients. Actions on a group of objects include resizing, moving, pinning, deleting, and duplicating the group as a whole.