Method and system for multi-location collaboration

A method of conducting multi-location collaboration among multiple remote users, comprising the steps of:

• establishing a collaboration session among the multiple remote users, each of the users having a respective white board;
• during the collaboration session, said multiple users exchanging audio, video, text and graphics among the multiple users via the white boards, said collaboration session including branching points and collaboration output between the branching points;
• defining each of the branching points as a respective one node;
• recording nodes and segments of the collaboration session in near real time;
• one of the multiple users gaining exclusive control of the collaboration session at any given time, wherein information input to the white board of said one of the multiple users, while said one of the multiple users has said exclusive control, is distributed to one or more of the other users in near real time;
• enabling replay of any of the collaboration segments, said replay comprised of audio, video, text and graphics;
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• graphically rendering relationships among the nodes and the segments.