Patent ID: 7546344

Claim:
A method for facilitating collaborative viewing by at least first and second collaborators at respective at least first and second clients in communication with a network having a least one information resource available from at least one server in communication with said network, the method practiced at said at least first and second clients, the method comprising: sending at least one message for storage at a collaboration server connected to said network, each such message indicating network address information for said at least first and second clients to be included in said collaborative viewing, sending at least one resource selection message to said collaboration server, each resource selection message comprising network address information for said at least one information resource, receiving from said collaboration server at each of said at least first and second clients at least one message identifying network address information for said at least one information resource, and using said received network address information at at least one of said at least first and second clients to access said at least one information resource, thereby facilitating said collaborative viewing.