Patent ID: 6976077

Claim:
A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions, comprising: at a browser hosted by a client application program, receiving a request from the client application program to instruct the browser to access a web page, the request providing information to the browser including a network location of the web page, the network location comprising a location only accessible by the browser that is hosted by the client application; accessing the web page with the browser at a server in response to the request from the client application program; receiving information about the web page in response to the accessing of the web page; writing the information received from the server to a client storage; providing the server with data corresponding to the information received from the server about the web page written into the client storage, the data indicating to the server that the browser is being hosted by the client application; receiving state information directed to the client application from the server based on the data having been provided to the server; and redirecting the browser to another web page that may be rendered for display to a user.