Patent ID: 7752561

Claim:
A method, executed by a computer system having at least one memory and at least one processing unit, for temporarily marking a portion of a document, the method comprising: connecting a first computer and a second computer via a peer-to-peer application over a network, wherein the first computer comprises a first display window and the second computer comprises a second display window; establishing a meeting between the first computer and the second computer; sending the document from the first computer to the second computer; displaying the document simultaneously on the first display window and on the second display window; sending a first marking directive from the first computer that creates a first visual indicia on the document; displaying the first visual indicia on the document in the first display window and in the second display window, wherein a clock maintains a first count for a predetermined amount of time after creating the first visual indicia in response to the first marking directive; sending a second marking directive from the second computer that creates a second visual indicia on the document; displaying the second visual indicia on the document in the first display window and in the second display window, wherein the clock maintains a second count for the predetermined amount of time after creating the second visual indicia in response to the second marking directive, wherein the first visual indicia and the second visual indicia are created at different times; and automatically erasing the first visual indicia and the second visual indicia on the document displayed in the first display window and in the second display window in response to the clock reaching the predetermined amount of time for the first count and for the second count, wherein the first visual indicia and the second visual indicia are automatically erased at different times.