Peer Collaboration Modes and Private Room Services in TOMSCOP

This paper presents the implementation of peer group management services in a pure P2P groupware framework called TOMSCOP (technology of multiuser synchronous collaboration platform). To support a variety of computer-based collaborative activities and styles, a user in a group can be assigned a role or identity such as a discusser peer, a chair peer, a presenter peer, a player peer, or an observer peer-Based on the above identities and their control service, we developed three collaboration modes, i.e., discussion mode, presentation mode and rotation mode, for smoothly manipulating shared applications in their different usages. Moreover we designed and implemented the public and private room services for users to create suitable collaboration rooms that match theirs privacy requirements. These modes and services not only provide more functions to TOMSCOP users, but also support software developers for easily and flexibly making P2P shared applications with different purposes