Patent ID: 7996776

Claim:
A method performed by a computer system for identifying on multiple computing devices a region identified by a user of a computing device, comprising: receiving at a host computing device a request to establish a sharing session with a participant computing device, the request made by a client application executing on the host computing device; establishing a sharing session wherein an application executing the host computing device that is different from the client application establishes the sharing session between at least the host computing device and the participant computing device, wherein the sharing session shares a document opened by the client application; receiving at the host computing device an indication from the participant computing device to identify a region to users participating in the sharing session, the region identified by a user at the participant computing device and specifying a portion of the shared document; drawing, by the client application that requested to establish the sharing session, the identified region on a display device associated with the host computing device before the region is drawn on the participant computing device; and causing the identified region to be drawn on a display device associated with the participant computing device after the identified region is drawn on the display device associated with the host computing device.