Patent ID: 7424516

Claim:
A method to provide adaptive forums within a single instance of a web browser application, the method comprising: at a server computer, receiving an indication of a first uniform resource locator (“URL”) from a client computer across a network communicatively linking the client computer and the server computer; displaying a screen on the client computer including one or more first forums based on the first URL; analyzing messages posted to the one or more first forums as displayed on the client computer to identify a topic for each message; simultenous with analyzing messages posted to the one or more first forums, analyzing each message posted to one or more second forums not displayed on the client computer to identify a topic for each message; determining a topic of a first message posted to at least one of the first forums has converged with a topic of a second message posted to at least one of the second forums, the first message having been posted substantially contemporaneiously with the second message; and diverting the second message to the at least one of the first forums for display thereby on the client computer.