Patent ID: 7734692

Claim:
A computer program product for facilitating interaction between network clients having access to a digital network, the computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable program code thereon, including: program code for accepting audio inputs from network clients, and providing audio outputs to network clients that comprise a mix of said audio inputs; program code for enabling a network client to participate in a collaboration in which certain collaborating clients are connected together such that audio inputs from the collaborating clients are mixed together and delivered to the collaborating clients as audio outputs; program code for allowing a subset group of fewer than all of the collaborating clients to initiate a voice chat comprising private audio communication with one another without interrupting said collaboration, the audio inputs of those in the subset group of collaborating clients that are participating in the voice chat being omitted from the audio outputs delivered to the collaborating clients that are not part of the subset group; program code for a main display window displayed on a video monitor of a collaborating client, the main display window listing the identities of all of the collaborating clients; and program code for a voice chat display window displayed on a video monitor of clients in the subset group, the voice chat display window listing the identities of all of the clients in the subset group.