diff --git a/docs/api/browser/ipc-browser.md b/docs/api/browser/ipc-browser.md
index 34ebda8a4dca..2edaa29463ae 100644
--- a/docs/api/browser/ipc-browser.md
+++ b/docs/api/browser/ipc-browser.md
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Emitted when renderer sent a message to the browser.
 * `routingId` Integer
 
 Emitted when renderer sent a synchronous message to the browser. The receiver
-should store the result in `event.result`.
+should store the result in `event.returnValue`.
 
 **Note:** Due to the limitation of `EventEmitter`, returning value in the
 event handler has no effect, so we have to store the result by using the
diff --git a/docs/api/renderer/ipc-renderer.md b/docs/api/renderer/ipc-renderer.md
index cdeadf39f680..4076b93b395e 100644
--- a/docs/api/renderer/ipc-renderer.md
+++ b/docs/api/renderer/ipc-renderer.md
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ An example of sending synchronous message from renderer to browser:
 // In browser:
 var ipc = require('ipc');
 ipc.on('browser-data-request', function(event, processId, routingId, message) {
-  event.result = 'THIS SOME DATA FROM THE BROWSER';
+  event.returnValue = 'THIS SOME DATA FROM THE BROWSER';
 });
 ```
 
diff --git a/renderer/api/lib/ipc.coffee b/renderer/api/lib/ipc.coffee
index 28b9a9692d04..88b8c1c41585 100644
--- a/renderer/api/lib/ipc.coffee
+++ b/renderer/api/lib/ipc.coffee
@@ -16,9 +16,11 @@ class Ipc extends EventEmitter
     ipc.send('ATOM_INTERNAL_MESSAGE', args...)
 
   sendSync: (args...) ->
-    ipc.sendSync('ATOM_INTERNAL_MESSAGE_SYNC', 'sync-message', args...).result
+    msg = ipc.sendSync('ATOM_INTERNAL_MESSAGE_SYNC', 'sync-message', args...)
+    msg.returnValue ? msg.result
 
   sendChannelSync: (args...) ->
-    ipc.sendSync('ATOM_INTERNAL_MESSAGE_SYNC', args...).result
+    msg = ipc.sendSync('ATOM_INTERNAL_MESSAGE_SYNC', args...)
+    msg.returnValue ? msg.result
 
 module.exports = new Ipc