Patent ID: 8068592

Claim:
A method of conferencing, comprising the steps of: interconnecting a plurality of user sites to establish a conference among the user sites by each user site connecting to a host computer and selecting a conferencing application to run on the host computer; retrieving, by at least one user site of the plurality of user sites, a set of one or more data objects from the host computer; processing the set of one or more data objects in a storage device operationally coupled to a user site of the at least one user site, wherein the storage device is operationally coupled to a display system; selecting a data object from the set of one or more data objects and transmitting a signal to indicate the selected data object, the signal including an address indicating the user site of the at least one user site; and receiving the signal by the user site based on the signal including the address indicating the user site, and displaying the selected data object on the display system in response to the step of receiving the signal.