Patent ID: 6667751
Filing Date: 2003-12-23
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for reviewing and displaying a visual history of a web browsing session on a user's computer, said web browsing session comprising one or more visits to Internet or intranet sites or pages, said computer having a processor capable of executing web browser software, one or more user input devices, a display, a linear history log, and one or more visual objects stored in computer readable media, said linear history log containing entries which relate visits to locations of stored visual objects, said method comprising the steps of:providing a user-operable slider-type graphical user control on said computer display, selectable and operable using said user input device; retrieving one or more visual objects from their locations in computer readable media according to entries in said history log in a predetermined order responsive to operation of said graphical user control; and displaying said visual objects one at a time in a single image viewer frame such that a user may view a predetermined sequence of individually displayed visual objects representing a recorded linear history of a web browsing session.