Patent ID: 7289606

Claim:
A method of swapping between a first mode of communication and a second mode of communication, wherein an application and a user communicate through a telephone in said first and second modes of communication, the communication being in a first mode, wherein a first browser facilitates communication with application in the first mode, and a second browser facilitates communication with application in the second mode, the method comprising: generating an instruction to perform a change of mode; adding the second mode to the communication while maintaining simultaneous use of the first mode of communication, wherein at the instant of adding the second browser, the second browser is not yet synchronized to the state of the first browser; synchronizing the second browser to a state of the first browser, further comprising the steps of: maintaining state information of said first browser and said second browser; receiving said maintained state information of first browser at the second browser; and initializing the second browser to the state of the first browser; whereby the first browser and the second browser are not required to be concurrently in the same updated state in all points in time during communication.