Patent ID: 8099463
Filing Date: 2012-01-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of sharing Web content between users, the method comprising: associating a first user with a current Web domain being browsed by the first user by parsing a current uniform resource locator (URL) of a current Web page viewed by the first user; creating a Web content sharing group by identifying one or more other users with which the first user would like to share and adding the first user and the one or more other users to the Web content sharing group; associating with the first user in the Web content sharing group a Web page URL of a current Web page being browsed by each of the one or more other users; calculating a status of each of the one or more other users in the Web content sharing group by determining if each of the one or more other users is browsing a different Web page in the same Web domain as the first user, the current Web page viewed by the first user, or a Web page not in the same Web domain as the first user, the Web domain comprising a plurality of Web pages associated with a single URL; and communicating each Web page URL of each of the at least one other users of the Web content sharing group and the status of each of the at least one other users of the Web content sharing group to the first user.