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Technology Overview

Our product is built around a platform for sharing applications (rather than sharing displays) in an Internet environment. The platform is the first complete, commercial solution for collaborative computing.

There are many companies and many solutions available today offering support for collaborative processes. Our approach is distinctly different from any of these offerings. Instead of trying to build an ad-hoc system supporting just one application domain - such as web conferencing, distance learning, or on-line customer support - we have invested in basic research into architectures of the web-based collaboration systems.

This research, sponsored by DARPA and other DoD agencies, resulted in construction of a general platform for browser-based collaborative computing.

Browser-based collaboration platform

CollabWorx SRTC Platform platform is browser-based. This means several things:

Since a web browser's primary function is to access and display data, the collaborative component our system adds makes it automatically possible to share this data. Since all human collaboration processes revolve around data, building collaboration systems inside of the browser allows the maximum number of users to benefit from them.
Unlike earlier attempts to implement CSCW (Computer Supported Collaborative Work) platforms, SRTC Platform benefits from a well-defined data model: all data handled by modern browsers are accessible via the general Document Object Model (DOM). Using this "shareable DOM" is the best way to build a highly scalable application, and CollabWorx holds the patent for this "collaborative browser" technology.
For users, a browser-based system means they can stay in the very familiar environment that just became richer by adding user-to-user real-time communication capability. No installation of a dozen of different applications is necessary to establish various collaborative environments such as web conferencing, on-line customer support, or on-line corporate training.

Read more about the system design, architecture, and system security.

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