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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsMelora Zaner, Kathleen Mulcahy, Erica Sanders, Cesare Saretto, Eugene Zarahovsky, Eugene Mesgar, Neel Murarka, Heather Ferguson, Asta Glatzer, Rama Ranganath, Tammy Savage, John Vert, Linda Stone
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A novel application and user interface for facilitating group interactions over a network integrates messaging, file sharing, media playing, journaling, profiles, and gaming into a cohesive environment. The groups facilitated by the invention are persistent and mobile in that a user does not have to recollect and reconfigure the group each time he or she wants to interact with the group online and, while online, the group may be taken from one activity to another without having to disband and reconnect at the second activity. The application is modular so as to be extensible to include other activities and functionalities. In an embodiment, the group interaction application utilizes a peer-to-peer network environment to facilitate network communications between group members.
A system for providing online group scrap booking, comprising:
A method for online scrap booking, comprising:
A computer-readable medium having thereon computer-readable instructions for providing an online group scrap booking activity, comprising:
The computer-readable medium according to claim 28, the users communicate via a peer-to-peer network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.