Patent ID: 6418471
Filing Date: 2002-07-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method for repeating browsing activities performed during a web browsing session using a first web browser on a first client computer, said browsing activities including a series of requests for retrieving web pages from a web server, the method comprising the steps of:(a) receiving at said web server an initial request from said first web browser for retrieving an initial page, said initial request indicating the beginning of said web browsing session; (b) creating a session file at said web server for said web browsing session in response to said initial request; (c) recording said browsing activities performed during said web browsing session to said session file; (d) assigning a unique session ID to said session file; (e) retrieving the browsing activities recorded during said web browsing session to said session file from said web server to a second web browser in response to a request from said second web browser identifying said session file by said session ID; and (f) repeating the recorded browsing activities at said second web browser; and wherein said web server includes multiple session files, each one of said multiple session files identified by a unique session ID, said multiple session files corresponding to multiple web browsing sessions occurring at said first client computer.