Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Computer-to-computer session/connection establishing – Network resources access controlling
Patent
1998-05-15
2000-11-21
Matar, Ahmad F.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Computer-to-computer session/connection establishing
Network resources access controlling
709203, 709217, 709227, 709228, 701 1, 701500, 345344, 345357, G06F 1516, G06F 1730
Patent
active
061516309
ABSTRACT:
A method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable programmed medium that facilitate browsing through an ordered sequence (108, 109) of World Wide Web pages (107) by automatically skipping over, or bypassing, previously viewed pages whenever the user requests a "Next Page" or a "Previous Page". A page owner creates a sequence by defining for each page in the sequence a page record (200) that specifies the page's URL (205), its sequential index value (210), an unviewed flag (220), and optionally page-descriptive information (230). Upon starting a session with a Web server (102), each user is given a copy of all page records. Each time a user requests access to any page by specifying its URL, the unviewed flag of the user's copy of that pages record is set to a viewed state. Each time a user requests access to any page by specifying a "Next Page" or a "Previous Page", the user's copy of the page records is used to find the first subsequent page or the first previous page, respectively, in the sequence to the page that is presently viewed by the user, whose unviewed flag is in the unviewed state, the state of the flag is changed to the viewed state, and the user is given access to this yet-unviewed page. At the end of each session, the page record copies that correspond to the session are deleted.
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Avaya Technology Corp.
Barot Bharat
Matar Ahmad F.
Volejnicek David
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