Patent ID: 7620996

Claim:
A method for displaying a subset of components contained on a web site to a user, wherein the web site is accessible via the Internet and is configured by a web site owner, comprising: providing a messenger client interface to a user upon the user logging into an instant messaging system, wherein the messenger client interface displays a messenger contact list of contacts associated with the user and provides an indicator proximate each contact in the messenger contact list that is associated with a web site; receiving a request from the user to view a contact's web site, wherein the contact's web site contains multiple web site components; determining whether the user is included on a permission list associated with the contact's web site, the permission list stored in an address book clearing house; if the user is included on the permission list, retrieving a subset of the multiple web site components from the contact's web site based on the permission list; and displaying the subset of the multiple web site components to the user for presentation to the user in a summary module window.