Patent ID: 6963901

Claim:
A method for sharing user-configured browser information between at least two network browsers configured to communicate the user-configured browser information via a network, comprising: generating the user-configured browser information during execution of a first network browser on a first computer in response to user-input commands; specifying, at the first computer, a second computer containing a second network browser as a recipient of the user-configured browser information from the first computer; and transmitting the user-configured browser information, via the network, from the first computer to the second computer, wherein: the user-configured browser information comprises bookmark information and user-preferences information and is adapted to reconfigure the second network browser, the user-preferences information comprises display attributes of the first network browser which cause the second network browser to be reconfigured according to the display attributes, thereby causing the second network browser to resemble first network browser on the second computer with respect to said display attributes, and said transmitting the user-configured browser information comprises sending an electronic mail message containing said user-configured browser information.