Patent ID: 7376896

Claim:
In a World wide Web (Web) communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive receiving display stations for displaying received hypertext documents of at least one display page containing text, images and a plurality of embedded hyperlinks, each hyperlink being user selectable to access and display a respective linked hypertext document, a system for generating surrogate Web browsing sessions comprising: means enabling a user to interactively navigate the Web through a sequence of linked hypertext documents in a browsing session at a receiving display station; means for recording on a real-time basis said interactive navigation of said user in said browsing session; means enabling a subsequent user to follow the path of said recorded navigation on a real-time basis in a surrogate browsing session on a display device; means enabling said subsequent user following said path of said recorded navigation in said surrogate session to modulate the real-time of said navigation on said display device; and means enabling said subsequent user to select a recorded but previously unselected hyperlink to thereby access a linked hypertext document.