Patent ID: 8001458

Claim:
A method of providing state information to a browser, comprising: running an application under a browser; as a first of multiple of predetermined references points are reached during the running of the application, providing at the application the state information identifying a state of the application and title information associated with the application to a referring web page that caused the browser to run the application; at the referring web page, receiving the state information and the title information, and providing the state information and the title information to the browser in a manner causing the browser to display the state information in a text box for the referring web page in which an address of web pages is displayed and to display the title information in an area of the browser in which titles of web pages are displayed; and as subsequent reference points of the plurality of predetermined references points are reached during the running of the application, repeating the providing to the referring web page, the receiving, and the providing to the browser.