unified management of network resources for simultaneous participation of several users in a meeting

摘要

Techniques for providing network resources are described. A session manager (114) within an application server (102) may maintain multiple sessions with a plurality of network users, where the network users may be remote from the network (108). The session manager (114) may provide the remote users with a selection of network resources (116), by adding a connection to the network resources (116) to an application requested by one or more of the users. In this way, pre-configured applications may be used to provide remote network resource usage. Examples of network resources which may be provided in this manner include remote printing, multi-user collaboration sessions, and remote data storage.