Patent ID: 6954902

Claim:
An information sharing processing method, comprising: a page display processing step for acquiring a file from a server on a network, and for displaying said file as a page, wherein said file is described in a page description language and includes a description of link information to another page on said network; a common-screen display processing step for displaying an icon representing a user at a position on a common screen displayed on a display of said user, and for displaying a message issued by said user, said user accessing said page displayed in said page display processing step, wherein information of said position of said icon on said common screen is specified in shared data transmitted by a shared server on said network; and a screen superposition processing step for superposing said common screen as a transparent layer within said page displayed in said page display processing step, wherein, in said common-screen display processing step, when said user starts accessing said another page different from said page displayed in said page display processing step, said icon representing said user, appearing on said page displaying a description of the link information, and superposed at said position on said page, vanishes to explicitly indicate that a transition from said page to said another different page has been performed.