Patent ID: 8495053
Filing Date: 2013-07-23
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for providing downloading of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) for a WEB browser running on a user's computer, the method comprising the steps of: utilizing a server to query the WEB browser to determine whether a predetermined URL component exists on the user's computer when the user arrives at a first WEB page of a WEB site hosted on the server for a browsing session; and sending to the URL component during the browsing session, responsive to determining the URL component exists on the user's computer, a set of advanced URLs pointing to respective WEB pages associated with the WEB site, wherein the sending of the advanced URLs is in advance of the user requesting the pages of the set of advanced URLs during the browsing session and is in advance of the user querying the WEB site during the browsing session, and wherein the predetermined URL component includes instructions operable with the WEB browser to store the set of advanced URLs in a data file on the user's computer associated with the WEB browser and to automatically display in the WEB browser at least a portion of the URLs of the set of advanced URL's to the user during the browsing session prior to the browser receiving the WEB pages to which the at least portion of the URLs point and independently of the user browsing the at least portion of the URLs, wherein the first WEB page is at a level in a page hierarchy of the WEB site and wherein the URLs displayed automatically when the user is at the first WEB page are limited to URLs at a next level down from the first WEB page in the page hierarchy, so that the user can navigate the WEB site via the displayed advanced URLs.