Patent ID: 7013423

Claim:
A method for controlling a display of pages retrieved over a network by a browser program, comprising: predefining, within the browser program, independently of a time specified within any particular page, a minimum threshold of time any page is to be displayed to enable the page to be in queue to be redisplayed in response to a user selection to go back through a sequence of previously displayed pages; determining a time that a given page is visibly displayed; enabling the given page to be in queue to be redisplayed in response to a user selection to go back through a sequence of previously displayed pages if the time meets the predefined minimum threshold; and preventing the given page from being in queue to be redisplayed in response to the user selection of a back function to go back through the sequence of previously displayed pages if the time is less than the predetermined minimum threshold, thereby avoiding a redirection from the given page in response to a selection by the user of the back function.