Patent ID: 8261198

Claim:
An article of manufacture comprising: a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer readable medium storing instructions thereon for providing co-browsing invitations when copy operations are detected, the instructions, which when executed, comprise: detecting that copy operations are being performed on website data displayed to a user; responsive to detecting copy operations, generating a co-browsing query for display to a user; receiving, in response to the co-browsing query, an instruction to associate a co-browsing invitation with website data previously displayed to the user and previously copied by the user; associating a co-browsing invitation with pasted website data, the pasted website data previously copied by the user, the invitation including a query identifying the user, the invitation including a query for a recipient to participate in a co-browsing session; and sending the associated co-browsing invitation and pasted website data to an invitee.