Patent ID: 8549413

Claim:
A method for selecting data to share in a screen sharing session, the method comprising: defining, at a first computer, a context for a screen sharing session; establishing, at the first computer, a shared link to a second computer, comprising authenticating a second user that uses the second computer; sharing, between the first computer and the second computer, at least a first resource rendered by a first application on the first computer, wherein the first application renders data of the first resource; receiving, at the first computer, a request by a first user to share a second resource; rendering, at the first computer, the second resource to form a rendered second resource, wherein a computer environment comprises the first resource and the second resource; determining, at the first computer, that the second resource fails to satisfy the context, and in response to a determination that the second resource fails to satisfy the context, displaying a dialog box which prompts the first user for a decision whether to share the second resource to the second computer, wherein the determination that the second resource fails to satisfy the context, comprises comparing the context to a tag, keyword, file name or file title within metadata associated with the second resource; receiving, at the first computer, a decision to share the second resource; and responsive to the decision to share the second resource, the first computer sharing the second resource to the second computer.