MANAGING NAVIGATION AND HISTORY INFORMATION

• US 20100017756A1
• Filed: 09/29/2009
• Published: 01/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/1997
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: AOL LLC (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Harris, Jerry L., Wassom, John T. JR.
• Granted Patent: US 9,444,875 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/854
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0709 in a distributed system consisting of a plurality of standalone computer nodes, e.g. clusters, client-server systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/073 in a memory management context, e.g. virtual memory or cache management memory management G06F12/00; testing of static memory units G11C29/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/10 Flow control; Congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/193 at the transport layer, e.g. TCP related
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/06 Message adaptation to terminal or network requirements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal

Abstract

History and navigation information in a computer application are managed by establishing a global context that can communicate with multiple resources, each of which resides in an associated local context. State information from one or more of the local contexts is communicated to the global context, and global navigation information (for example, defining a drop-down history list or back/forward button states) is generated based on the communicated state information. Using the global navigation information, a user of the computer application can move among previously visited resources in a global manner.

Claims

1. A computer-readable storage medium storing instructions for causing a computer system to perform the following operations:

generate a user interface in communication with a plurality of resources, the user interface comprising a window configured to concurrently present a representation of a first window associated with a first resource and a second window associated with a second resource;

receive an indication that the first resource is accessed from within the user interface;

receive an indication that the second resource is accessed from within the user interface;

generate navigation information including locations of the first resource and the second resource based on the indications of accessing first resource and the second resource; and

present the navigation information as an ordered list having an order representative of an order in which the first and second resources were accessed using the user interface.