Collaborative browsing
First Claim
1. A method for facilitating collaborative viewing by at least first and second collaborators at respective at least first and second clients in communication with a network of at least one resource available from at least one server computer in communication with a network, the method practiced at a collaboration server in communication with said network, the method comprising the steps ofreceiving from at least one of said clients at least one resource selection message comprising information identifying said at least one resource,responding to said at least one resource selection message by generating at least one locator message addressed to said at least first and second clients, each of said locator messages comprising at least one locator associated with said at least one resource, andsending said locator messages to said network for delivery to said at least first and second clients.
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to a technique for collaborative browsing among users at two or more different PCs. In an illustrative system in accordance with the present invention, copies of selected URLs are shared among collaborating PCs, each of which uses the URL to retrieve the corresponding document. In this system, a PC is configured to select hyperlinks for itself and one or more other PCs. Each URL corresponding to a selected hyperlink is communicated via the Internet (using standard Internet protocols) to a server. The server broadcasts the URL to the collaborating PCs each of which retrieves the corresponding document in conventional fashion. The server knows the IP addresses of the collaborating PCs through a collaboration set-up process which occurs in advance of the actual collaborative browsing session.
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1. A method for facilitating collaborative viewing by at least first and second collaborators at respective at least first and second clients in communication with a network of at least one resource available from at least one server computer in communication with a network, the method practiced at a collaboration server in communication with said network, the method comprising the steps of
receiving from at least one of said clients at least one resource selection message comprising information identifying said at least one resource, responding to said at least one resource selection message by generating at least one locator message addressed to said at least first and second clients, each of said locator messages comprising at least one locator associated with said at least one resource, and sending said locator messages to said network for delivery to said at least first and second clients.
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