Patent ID: 8683355

Claim:
A chat space system, comprising: at least one computer system; and an audible chat space application for managing an audible chat space hosted on the at least one computer system that, when executed on the at least one computer system, receives a plurality of audio recordings, at least some of the audio recordings formatted to initiate one of a plurality of chat themes and the other audio recordings associated with one of the chat themes, posts the plurality of audio recordings to the audible chat space; converts a chat theme audio title provided for each of the audio recordings formatted to initiate one of the chat themes to a chat theme text title, stores the audio recordings according to chat themes, enables navigation of the chat themes by displaying a separate icon for each of the chat themes, signaling an activity level for each of the chat themes based on adjustable icon attributes, and presenting audio recordings posted for a chat theme in response to selection of a corresponding icon by a user, in response to receiving a request from a first device for a list of chat themes, retrieves the chat theme text titles from storage and transmits the chat theme text titles to the first device, and in response to receiving a request from a second device for a summary of a first one of the chat themes, retrieves a sample portion of the audio recording formatted to initiate the first one of the chat themes and the audio recordings associated with the first chat theme from storage and transmits to the second device the sample portion of the audio recording formatted to initiate the first one of the chat themes and the audio recordings associated with the first chat theme.