Patent ID: 9009587
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a browser of an information handling system (IHS), a user request to display a particular webpage of a particular website; displaying, by the IHS, the particular webpage in response to receiving the user request to display the particular webpage of the particular website; intercepting, by a locking tool for the browser of the IHS, a request to navigate away from the particular webpage to a target webpage to prevent data loss; determining, by the locking tool for browser of the IHS, whether to grant or block the request to navigate away from the particular webpage to the target webpage to prevent data loss, halting, by locking tool for the browser of the IHS, navigation away from the particular webpage in response to the block decision to prevent data loss, unless in response to the locking tool for the browser of the IHS prompting the user with the options to proceed to navigate to the target webpage, the user instructs the locking tool for the browser of the IHS to proceed to navigate to the target webpage by selecting the open in a new window option or the open in a new tab option; and halting, by the locking tool for the browser of the IHS, navigation away from the particular webpage in response to the block decision to prevent data loss, unless in response to the locking tool for the browser of the IHS prompting the user with the option to proceed to navigate to the target webpage, the user instructs the locking tool for the browser of the IHS to disable the locking tool for the browser of the IHS and to proceed to navigate to the target webpage by selecting the disable and continue option.