TRACKING AND GRAPHICAL DISPLAY OF USER ACTIVITY ON AN INFORMATION NETWORK
First Claim
1. A method for indicating to a plurality of users, relationships among a plurality of accessible materials, said method comprising the steps of:
- displaying a plurality of icons, each corresponding to a respective one of said plurality of accessible materials;
maintaining respective data associated with said plurality of accessible materials for each of said plurality of users; and
providing said respective data maintained for one of said users to another of said users.
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Abstract
Relationships among a plurality of web pages are indicated to a plurality of users. Icons are displayed, each of which corresponds to one of the web pages. Data associated with each of the pages is maintained for each of the users. This data may exist in the web page or be entered as a notation by each user. Data maintained locally for one user can be provided to another user. Web pages which have already been accessed are also indicated. A map is provided to guide the user so that the user may know which web pages have been accessed, which web pages are to be accessed next and what each web page means to the user Icons are added to the map for each material accessed. Links between icons may be established by the user or by the creator of the map. These links are displayed on the map as a user traverses among the accessible materials. The map may also exist at several levels such that the links and icons at a given level are collapsed into a single icon at the next lower or next higher level when that next lower or next higher level is viewed.
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1. A method for indicating to a plurality of users, relationships among a plurality of accessible materials, said method comprising the steps of:
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displaying a plurality of icons, each corresponding to a respective one of said plurality of accessible materials;
maintaining respective data associated with said plurality of accessible materials for each of said plurality of users; and
providing said respective data maintained for one of said users to another of said users. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 7)
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6. A method of indicating web frame access comprising the steps of:
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writing Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) corresponding to a plurality of pages to a database using hidden frames;
tracking further frames corresponding to said URLs in a web browser to identify said further frames; and
reproducing window configuration for one of said further frames in said web browser independent of window configuration updates.
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8. A method of indicating web page access by a plurality of users, said method comprising the steps of:
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displaying to each of said users a plurality of icons which represent a plurality of web pages;
indicating for one of said users which web pages of said plurality of web pages have been accessed by said one of said users; and
indicating for another of said users which web pages of said plurality of web pages have been accessed by said one of said users. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method of indicating web page access, said method including the steps of:
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providing a map which is empty;
adding to said map respective icons corresponding to respective web pages when said respective web pages are visited;
providing a display of icons corresponding to said map;
displaying indications between corresponding icons on said map as a user traverses among said web pages. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. An apparatus for indicating to a plurality of users, relationships among a plurality of accessible materials, using a browser, visualization and tracking facilities, a database interface and a database, comprising:
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means for displaying a plurality of icons, each corresponding to a respective one of said plurality of accessible materials;
means for maintaining respective data associated with said plurality of accessible materials for each of said plurality of users; and
means for providing said respective data maintained for one of said users to another of said users.
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31. A carrier including a computer program for causing a computer to indicate to a plurality of users, relationships among a plurality of accessible materials, said computer program comprising:
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means for causing the computer to display a plurality of icons, each corresponding to a respective one of said plurality of accessible materials;
means for causing the computer to maintain respective data associated with said plurality of accessible materials for each of said plurality of users; and
means for causing the computer to provide said respective data maintained for one of said users to another of said users. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33)
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34. A system for tracking a user'"'"'s accessing of data independent of any server used to access the data comprised of:
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a database server for storing the data;
a tracking component for capturing the data; and
,a visualization component for viewing the data.
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