Patent ID: 8199891

Claim:
A method comprising the steps of: establishing a telecommunication session between a first telecommunication device and a second telecommunication device with a computer telephony server, wherein said first telecommunication device is associated with a first computing device and said second telecommunication device is associated with a second computing device in an electronic configuration profile; receiving a request to share screen data between the parties of said telecommunication session, and hosting a screen sharing session between said first computing device and said second computing device in response to said request; wherein hosting the screen sharing session comprises: determining a first address corresponding to the network address of said first computing device and a second address corresponding to the network address of said second computing device using identifiers of the telecommunication devices corresponding to the parties in said telecommunication session and said electronic configuration profile; requesting at least a portion of the screen data displayed on said first computing device using said first address; receiving said screen data from said first computer; and transmitting said screen data to said second computing device using said second address in near real-time.