Displaying Content From Multiple Users

Abstract

A system and method are disclosed for integrating an on-line service community with a foreign service such as the Internet World Wide Web. To take advantage of the present invention, on-line service subscribers access a membership module to complete a membership process in which they join communities each of which represents a specific area of interest. The present invention operates as an extension to a user's preferred Web browser and is manifested as a toolbar comprised of control buttons and a viewer on a computer user's screen. By interacting with the control buttons of the toolbar and the menus of the viewer, on-line service content is delivered to the user in response to the URLs specified by the user as he or she browses the Web. In addition, control buttons on the toolbar present opportunities for interacting with other community members

1 . A server system for providing Internet-related content which is accessible by a user's client system, comprising:
 a foreign server for receiving a request from the client system and delivering foreign content; and   a community server having community content that is automatically provided to the client system in response to the request, where the community content is related to the foreign content.   
     
     
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