Patent ID: 6014696
Filing Date: 2000-01-11
Classification: G06F,H04M

Abstract:
A method of restricting a predetermined user unit to refer to data stored in a WWW server using a WWW browser in a client-server system connected to a wide area computer network, wherein:when the WWW browser at the client side demands to refer to a page-descriptive file and a relevant data file of a predetermined page of the server side, the service side generates new files which respectively have the same substantial contents as the above two files while directory-file names of character sequences for specifying each of the new files are respectively different from those of the above files to be referred to, each new file name including a character sequence specific to the user unit, and the server side informs the client side of the character sequence specific to the user unit, and the server side informs the client side of the character sequence specific to the user unit; andwhen the WWW browser sends the server side a request for acquiring the page-descriptive file and relevant data file by using the character sequence specific to the user unit, the server side verifies the character sequence specific to the user unit, appended to the request, and only when the verified character sequence is true, the server side sends the WWW browser the page-descriptive file and relevant data file which have been revised in content by which the WWW browser refers to the files having different names.