Patent ID: 7263526
Filing Date: 2007-08-28
Classification: G06Q,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for embedding chat functions in a Web page, comprising: in response to a command received by a computer, establishing a browser region including a browser frame controlled by a browser client on a display device; establishing a chat region controlled by a chat client within the browser region on the display device contemporaneously with the browser region, the chat region being a real time continuously open bi-directional communications chat region synchronized with the browser region; in response to receiving chat content including a link to a web page, the chat client effecting displaying of the chat content in the chat region; in response to detecting selection, by a user of the display device, of the link displayed in the chat region, the chat client invoking the browser client with the link; in response to the invoking, the browser client obtaining from a server the web page that corresponds to the link and displaying the obtained web page in the browser frame; controlling the browser region, except for contents of the chat region displayed on the display device, by a browser client; controlling contents of the chat region by a chat client; the browser client displaying web pages within the browser region contemporaneously with the chat client displaying chat text within the chat region such that the chat region and the browser region and their contents are displayed concurrently; the browser client communicating the web pages with a browser server via a first communications connection; and the chat client communicating the chat text with a chat server via a second communications connection that is a real time continuously open bi-directional communications connection.