Patent ID: 7596596

Claim:
A method of sharing a marker with at least one participant in an electronic chat between a plurality of users, the method comprising: at a first computer, displaying a chat input window to a first user on a first output device; at a second computer, displaying a chat display window to a second user on a second output device; responsive to the first user entering a first message into the chat input window, performing steps comprising: entering a marker automatically at a specific location into the first message without a user request, and sending the first message to the second user; responsive to the first user entering a second message into the chat input window and specifying the marker to send, performing steps comprising: entering a link to the marker into the second message; sending the second message containing the link to the marker to the second user, and displaying the second message in the second display window on the second output device; responsive to the second user activating the link in the second message, performing steps comprising: opening a third display window on the second output device; and displaying the specific location in the first message in the third display window; wherein the specific location is an individual word, a phrase, a turn, or a sub-turn in the first message; wherein the marker identifies the specific location and a sender of the message containing the specific location; wherein all message data is saved to a repository so that linking one or more message markers from a plurality of different sessions with a plurality of different users is enabled; and wherein the marker and the third display window are synchronized by the marker.