Patent ID: 8250141

Claim:
A method, comprising: determining that a specified event, which occurs during an ongoing collaborative computing session conducted between nodes in a network over an in-band communication channel, has occurred, wherein at least one of the nodes is a presenter node that shares content over the in-band communication channel, at least one of the nodes is associated with an attendee and receives and displays the content, wherein the specified event is defined by the attendee and the presenter node determines that the specified event has occurred; determining, by the presenter node, that each attendee of a particular set of one or more attendees has selected an out-of-band communication channel via which a notification is to be sent; and transmitting, in response to the specified event and while the collaborative computing session is ongoing, a real-time electronic notification from the presenter node to each attendee of the particular set of one or more attendees of the session that the event has occurred, the notification transmitted to each attendee via the out-of-band communication channel selected by the respective attendee.