Patent ID: 7363588

Claim:
A method of providing a graphical user display interface format which determines visual layout of user displays for a plurality of users that operates under a predetermined common graphical user display format substantially controlled by an employer of the plurality of users, such method comprising the steps of: disposing a proxy server between the plurality of users and a plurality of information resources used by the plurality of users, each of the information resources having a different predetermined graphical user display interface format; detecting selection of an information resource of the plurality of information resources by a user of the plurality of users; converting in the proxy server information delivered from the selected information resource to the user from the respective predetermined graphical user display interface format of the selected information resource to the predetermined common graphical user display format substantially controlled by the employer of the user; and wherein the converting step customizes visual layout of displays of the plurality of users to that of the common graphical user display format of the employer of the plurality of users.