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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2000
Tsunetake Noma, Tokyo, JP;
Haruhiko Sakata, Kanagawa, JP;
Tsunetake Noma, Tokyo, JP;
Haruhiko Sakata, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided an information sharing processing method comprising the steps of a page display processing step for acquiring a file from a predetermined server on a network and displaying the file as a page, wherein the file is described in a predetermined page description language and includes a description of link information to another file on the network; a common-screen display processing step for displaying an icon representing a user at a position on a common screen shared with the user and displaying a message issued by the user making an access to the same page as the page displayed at the page display processing step, wherein information on the position and the message are specified by the user in shared data transmitted by the user by way of a shared server on the network; and a screen superposition processing step for superposing the common screen displayed at the common-screen display processing step on the page displayed at the page display processing step. Accordingly, it is possible to make an access to the web page with ease while participating a chat. In addition, any one of the users is capable of immediately knowing whether the other user is making an access to the same web page.