Patent ID: 9253128
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory storage medium containing program code for controlling computers in collaborating between first and second users at first and second workstations, the first and second workstations having first and second web browsers and first and second display screens, respectively, comprising: program code for loading a web page into the first web browser; program code for establishing an instant messaging connection between the first workstation and the second workstation; program code for sending an address of the web page loaded at the first web browser to the second web browser at the second workstation via the instant messaging connection; program code for loading the web page at the second web browser in response to receipt of the web page address; program code for establishing a network connection using a TCP/IP protocol between the first web browser and the second web browser; program code for sending messages from the first web browser to the second web browser via the TCP/IP protocol network connection responsive to screen events by a user at the first web browser to control screen events at the second web browser; program code for caching source language of the web page displayed at the first and second web browsers; program code for parsing, separately at the first web browser and the second web browser, the source language of the cached source language of the web page displayed at the first web browser and the second web browser to identify one or more screen components defined by the source language; program code for assigning a unique identifier to each screen component of the one or more screen components, the unique identifiers being used to synchronize the screen events at the first and second web browsers, wherein the screen components for the web page displayed at the second web browser are assigned the same unique identifiers as the unique identifiers assigned to the screen components for the web page displayed at the first web browser; and program code for detecting a text selection in the web page at the first web browser, wherein a message is sent to the second web browser comprising a copy of the text selected in the web page at the first web browser, wherein text in the web page at the second web browser that corresponds to the copy of the text selected in the web page at the first web browser is highlighted in the second web browser.