Patent ID: 8128503

Claim:
A system for live broadcasting video information from a sender computer to a receiver computer via at least one server computer operative on a network, comprising: desktop software stored on a computer readable medium, wherein the desktop software is operative on the sender computer, wherein the desktop software: (1) obtains from the sender computer a plurality of video packets of live video information corresponding to a series of images shown on a screen of the sender computer; and (2) provides the plurality of video packets to a network connection associated with the sender computer for broadcast via the network, wherein the plurality of video packets provided to the network connection comprise: (a) a zoomed-in version of the series of images shown on the screen of the sender computer when a user of the sender computer indicates to the desktop software to provide the zoomed-in version of the series of images shown on the screen of the sender computer; and (b) a non-zoomed-in version of the series of images shown on the screen of the sender computer when the user of the sender computer does not indicate to the desktop software to provide the zoomed-in version of the series of images shown on the screen of the sender computer; and server software stored on a computer readable medium, wherein the server software is operative on the server computer, wherein the server software: (1) receives the plurality of video packets broadcast from the network connection of the sender computer; and (2) broadcasts, via the network, to the receiver computer video information corresponding to the plurality of video packets received by the server computer.