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Web collaborative browsing system and method using internet relay chat protocol

  • US 20030105819A1
  • Filed: 02/06/2002
  • Published: 06/05/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2001
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A Web collaborative browsing method using an Internet relay chat (IRC) protocol and a standard IRC server, comprising the steps of:

  • a), by a collaborative browsing client, opening a collaborative browsing session;

    b), by said collaborative browsing client, creating a control message corresponding to an event if the event occurs while said client is connected to a Web server to conduct Web surfing, after said collaborative browsing session is opened, and then sending the created control message to said IRC server over a network;

    c), by said IRC server, receiving the sent event occurrence control message and transferring the received control message to a plurality of clients participating in said collaborative browsing session opened by said collaborative browsing client; and

    d), by a collaborative browsing component program of each of said session participating clients, instructing a Web browser of a corresponding one of said session participating clients in response to said control message to request the same event as that having occurred in said collaborative browsing client, from said Web server.

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