Patent ID: 7219122

Claim:
A collaboration system comprising: a first collaboration server; a first collaboration server repository coupled to the first collaboration server, wherein the first collaboration server repository has a first copy of a collaboration application and first collaboration server data associated with the first copy of the collaboration application stored therein; a first collaboration engine coupled to the first collaboration server; a second collaboration server, wherein the first and second collaboration servers are adapted to operate in a collaboration session; a second collaboration server repository coupled to the second collaboration server, wherein the second collaboration server repository has a second copy of the collaboration application, second collaboration server data associated with the second copy of the collaboration application, and a portion of the first collaboration server data stored therein, wherein the portion of the first collaboration server data is automatically updated in real time to reflect changes in the first collaboration server data; and a second collaboration engine coupled to the second collaboration server and coupled to the first collaboration engine, wherein the first collaboration engine is adapted to transfer first collaboration application information associated with operation of the first copy of the collaboration application to the second collaboration engine and the second collaboration engine is adapted to transfer second collaboration application information associated with operation of the second copy of the collaboration application to the first collaboration engine.