Patent ID: 9734253
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of controlling a home device web browser by a home device, the method comprising: displaying, by the home device, the home device web browser, the home device web browser including a back button interface for returning to a previously accessed URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of a web browser, wherein the back button interface is activated when at least one of the home device and at least one external device has the web browsing information; determining whether a URL access of the home device web browser is available or not in response to the user input to the back button interface; receiving web browsing information of at least one external device when a URL access change to a previously accessed URL of the home device is not available; changing, by the home device, the URL access of the home device web browser in response to a user input to the back button interface based on the web browsing information of the home device when a URL access change to a previously accessed URL of the home device is available; changing, by the home device, the URL access of the home device web browser in response to a user input to the back button interface based on the web browsing information of the at least one external device connected to the home device via a network when a URL access change to a previously accessed URL of the home device is not available; and displaying, by the home device, a webpage based on the changed URL access on the home device web browser, wherein the web browsing information of the at least one external device includes a URL history information according to an accessed time about a URL accessed by web browsers of the at least one external device.