This project has been funded by ONR and NSF.
In this project,
we developed the notion of a shared window system,
a system allowing logical windows created by a collaboration-unaware
client to be shared by multiple users.
We implemented this concept in a widely-used system called XTV,
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which in built on top of the X window system.
At last count, XTV
systems have been imported by over 300 remote users. In particular, our
technology has been adopted by the NEC Corporation of Japan for use in their
Xprotodist (X Protocol Distributor) product.
In addition to the specific system,
our work has also identified general issues,
problems,
and approaches to building shared window systems on top of X.
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