Patent ID: 6785723
Filing Date: 2004-08-31
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
In a World Wide Web communication network with user access via a plurality of client computer controlled display stations connected through network server computers to World Wide Web documents transmitted from resource locations on said World Wide Web network remote from said client display stations, a system for tracking the transmission of said Web documents comprising:means for requesting the transmission of Web documents from one of said resource locations to one of said client display stations; means, associated with the client display station requesting the transmission of Web documents, for tracking characteristics of said transmission including a first successful transmission of a requested Web document to a requesting display station following a failed transmission of a requested Web document, and means, responsive to the first successful transmission of a requested Web document to said requesting display station following a failed transmission of said requested Web document, for sending said tracked characteristics to at least one Web network server on the path of said requested transmission.