Patent ID: 7213211

Claim:
A client/server network of computers programmed for knowledge transfer in a group setting, the client/server network comprising: at least one server containing a database; and a plurality of clients including participant workstations and at least one moderator workstation, each participant workstation programmed to provide a participant work area and having at least one corresponding participant input-device, and each of the participant input-devices being adapted to create data structures defining participant images that are then included in the participant work area, each participant workstation being programmed to send data structures defining participant images to the database on the at least one server and to retrieve moderator images from the database and include them in the participant work area; each moderator workstation programmed to provide a moderator work area and comprising at least one moderator input-device, the at least one moderator input-device being adapted to create data structures defining moderator images that are then included on the moderator work area, the moderator workstation programmed to send the data structures defining the moderator images to the database on the at least one server, wherein the data structures are stored in the database, and to retrieve participant images from the database from any selected one of the plurality of participant work areas and include the selected participant images on the moderator work area, wherein the moderator workstation is adapted to transmit an object drawn by the moderator when the object is complete.