Patent ID: 8601066

Claim:
Apparatus to distribute communication over an Internet network, the apparatus including: a controller computer system, comprising a computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the controller computer system in communication with the participator computers, wherein: the controller computer system computer receives communications from the participator computers and carries out the steps of arbitrating, in accordance with predefined rules including a test for an authenticated user identity, to determine which ones of the participator computers can communicate communications in real time over the Internet network, and, wherein when one of the participator computers determines a media type is an image, the one of the participator computers further determines the media type is internally handleable, and after testing that the media type is a member associated image, providing a member-associated image and respective member identity information to at least some of the participator computers.