Web page access
First Claim
1. A method of regulation by one or more agents of the degree of access to one or more World-Wide-Web sites available to one or more clients of said one or more World-Wide-Web sites, the method including the steps of:
- placing at least one of the one or more clients and one of the one or more agents in communication with a common Web host;
requesting of the one or more clients information identifying each of the one or more clients for communication to the one agent;
communicating said client identifying information to the one agent, whereby the one agent controls said common Web host to regulate the degree of access available to the identified one or more clients thereat.
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Abstract
In a network accessed by a client access device (3) and an agent access device (8), there is disclosed a method and apparatus for the regulation by the agent of the degree of access available to the client (3) to Web pages at a Web host (9) in common communication the client (3) and agent (8) via the internet (6). The degree of access is determined after the client (3) has supplied identifying information to the agent (8), the agent being in control of the Web host (9) so as to variably determine what degree of access the identified client should have to Web pages provided by the Web host. Methods and apparatus are disclosed for the control of the Web host (9) by the agent (8) so as to regulate which Web pages the client views via the Web host (9), in what order they are viewed, and when. A method and apparatus for signalling to the agent, via the Web host (9), when a Web page is onloaded at the clients browser application (2) is disclosed, as is a method of disabling caching of data transmitted between the client (8) and the host (9).
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1. A method of regulation by one or more agents of the degree of access to one or more World-Wide-Web sites available to one or more clients of said one or more World-Wide-Web sites, the method including the steps of:
- placing at least one of the one or more clients and one of the one or more agents in communication with a common Web host;
requesting of the one or more clients information identifying each of the one or more clients for communication to the one agent;
communicating said client identifying information to the one agent, whereby the one agent controls said common Web host to regulate the degree of access available to the identified one or more clients thereat. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
- placing at least one of the one or more clients and one of the one or more agents in communication with a common Web host;
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10. Apparatus for the regulation by one or more agents of the degree of access to one or more World-Wide-Web sites available to one or more clients of said one or more World-Wide-Web sites, the apparatus comprising:
- one or more agent computers;
a common Web host being in communication with each of said one or more agent computers and with the computers of each of said one or more clients; and
communications apparatus for communicating from the one or more clients to one of the one or more agents information identifying said one or more clients, whereby the one agent computer is operable to control the common Web host to regulate the degree of said access at the Web host available to said one or more clients. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
- one or more agent computers;
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19. A method of control by an agent of the information accessed at one or more World-Wide-Web sites available to a client of said one or more World-Wide-Web sites, the method including the steps of:
- placing both the client and the agent in communication with a common Web host;
the agent being in control of said common Web host so as to select which information is sent to the client by the common Web host in response to requests therefor from the client, the agent controlling how the Web host responds to such requests thereby selecting which information the client accesses. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 44, 45)
- placing both the client and the agent in communication with a common Web host;
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26. Apparatus for the control by an agent of the information accessed at one or more World-Wide-Web sites by a client of said one or more World-Wide-Web sites, the apparatus comprising:
- an agent computer;
a client computer; and
a common Web host in communication with said agent computer and with said client computer, the agent computer being operable to control how the Web host responds to information requests from the client so as to select which information is sent to the client by the common Web host in response to requests therefor from the client. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
- an agent computer;
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33. A method of communicating to an agent computer the occurrence of an onload event at a client computer in receipt of data from a common Web host with which both the client computer and the agent computer are in communication, the method comprising the steps of:
- transmitting from the client computer to the agent computer a client signal indicating the occurrence of an onload event at the client computer.
- View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37)
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38. Apparatus for communicating to an agent computer the occurrence of an onload event at a client computer in receipt of data from a common Web host with which both the client computer and the agent computer are in communication, the apparatus comprising:
- said client computer;
said agent computer; and
said common Web host, wherein the client computer is operable to transmit to the agent computer a client signal indicating the occurrence of an onload event at the client computer. - View Dependent Claims (39)
- said client computer;
- 41. Apparatus according to claim 41 wherein, the common Web host is operable to provide Web pages to the client computer which contain at least two frames, one of which contains the information that the client views and another of which contains said refresh instruction.
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43. A method of disabling the caching of information requested from one or more World Wide Web sites by a client of said one or more World Wide Web sites, the method including the step of rendering uniquely different each Uniform Resource Locator (URL) request from said client.
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