Document based conferencing

A computerized method comprising:

• accessing a first instance of a document, the first instance of the document stored locally to a computer and presenting a view of the first instance of the document on a display of the computer;
• retrieving, from the first instance of the document, a Uniform Resource Identifier of a collaboration server and a document identifier associated with the first instance of the document;
• connecting to a collaboration session on the collaboration server as a function of the Uniform Resource Identifier and the document identifier;
• identifying a viewable area of the first instance of the document presented on the display of the computer;
• and
• synchronizing the viewable area of the first instance of the document with a viewable area of a second instance of the document local to a computer of another collaboration session participant using data sent to and received from the collaboration server.

A system comprising:

• a processing unit;
• a memory device;
• a display device;
• an instruction set stored on the memory device, the instruction set including instructions defining system elements comprising:
• a data viewing user interface to be presented on the display device;
• and
• a conferencing module executable by the processing unit to:
• extract conference connectivity data from a document stored in the memory device, a portion of the document being displayable in the data viewing interface;
• connect to a collaboration server identified in the extracted conference connectivity data;
• join a conference as a function of data included in the conference connectivity data;
• exchange peer-to-peer connectivity data with an other conference participant via the connection to the collaboration server;
• establish a peer-to-peer connection with the other conference participant according to the peer-to-peer connectivity data;
• conducting the conference in whole via the established peer-to-peer connection;
• receive data via the peer-to-peer connection from the other collaboration participant and present at least a portion of the received data within the data viewing user interface.