Patent ID: 8601162

Claim:
A method of sharing web pages with users of a computer service, the method comprising: maintaining, with a web browser at a client computer, a favorite web page collection for storing network addresses of web pages that have been selected as favorite web pages by a user of the web browser at the client computer, the favorite web page collection including an aggregation of both network addresses of web pages that have not been shared with other users of the computer service and network addresses of web pages that have been shared with other users of the computer service; receiving, with the web browser at the client computer, an indication that a user of the web browser at the client computer has selected a new web page for inclusion in the favorite web page collection maintained by the web browser at the client computer; and in response to receiving the indication that the user has selected the new web page for inclusion in the favorite web page collection maintained by the web browser at the client computer: adding a network address of the new web page to the favorite web page collection maintained by the web browser at the client computer, determining, based on input by the user that is specific to the particular new web page being added to the favorite web page collection, whether or not to share, with other users of the computer service, an indication that the new web page is included in the favorite web page collection maintained by the web browser at the client computer, and depending on conclusions drawn regarding whether or not to share an indication that the new web page is included in the favorite web page collection maintained by the web browser at the client computer, accessing the network address of the new web page and transmitting the accessed network address of the new web page to a remote host computer associated with the computer service to share the accessed network address with other users of the computer service.