BROWSING INFORMATION GATHERING SYSTEM, BROWSING INFORMATION GATHERING METHOD, SERVER, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20120072492A1
• Filed: 05/27/2010
• Published: 03/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Shima, Shigeyoshi, Aoki, Satoshi, Ishikawa, Takayuki, Kawakita, Masaru, Nagai, Shuntaro
• Application Number:
  US13/321,642
• Publication Number:
  US 20120072492A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1416 Event detection, e.g. attack signature detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/2895 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data provider application, e.g. reverse proxies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/561 Adding application-functional data or data for application control, e.g. adding metadata

Abstract

When a client transmits an HTML request to a server (step S5), the server generates HTML texts (step S7), and transmits the generated texts to the client (step S8). A control unit obtains information displayed by a browser (step S11), and determines whether or not confidential information like personal information is displayed by the browser and it is necessary to create a log, and creates the log if necessary (step S12). When creating the log, the control unit transmits the created log to the WWW server (step S13).

Claims

1. A browsing information gathering system including a client and a server that stores data, the client and the server being connected together,

the client comprising a document request unit that requests the data to the server,

the server comprising data transmitting unit that adds identification information to the data requested by the client and that transmits the data with the identification information to the client,

the client further comprising:

a browsing unit that browses the data transmitted from the server;

a determining unit that determines whether or not specific information is browsed through the browsing unit based on the identification information added to the data; and

a browsing information transmitting unit that transmits browsing information indicating that the specific information is browsed to the server when the determining unit determines that the specific information is browsed through the browsing unit,

the server further comprising;

a browsing information storing unit that stores the browsing information transmitted from the client.

2. The browsing information gathering system according to claim 1, wherein the determining unit determines whether or not the specific information is browsed through the browsing unit when data browsed through the browsing unit is changed.

3. The browsing information gathering system according to claim 1, wherein

the client further comprises:

an operation unit that executes an operation related to the data browsed through the browsing unit; and

an operation detecting unit that detects the operation to the operation unit, and

the determining unit determines whether or not the specific information is browsed through the browsing unit when the operation detecting unit detects the operation.

4. The browsing information gathering system according to claim 1, wherein

the browsing unit is capable of browsing data in a specific range in the data transmitted from the server, and

the determining unit determines whether or not the specific information is browsed upon determining whether or not the specific information is included in the specific range.

5. The browsing information gathering system according to claim 1, wherein

when the data requested from the client is the confidential information, the data transmitting unit adds the identification information to the data and transmits the data with the identification information to the client, the identification information specifying that the data is the confidential information, and

the determining unit determines whether or not the specific information is browsed based on whether or not the data added with the identification information specifying that the data is the confidential information is browsed through the browsing unit.

6. A browsing information gathering method executed by a browsing information gathering system including a client and a server that stores data, the client and the server being connected together, the browsing information gathering method comprising:

a document requesting step that the client requests the data to the server;

a data transmitting step that the server adds identification information to the data requested by the client and that transmits the data with the identification information to the client;

a determining step that the client determines whether or not specific information is browsed based on the identification information added to the data;

a browsing information transmitting step that the client transmits browsing information indicating that the specific information is browsed to the server when it is determined in the determining step that the specific information is browsed; and

a browsing information storing step that the server stores the browsing information transmitted from the client.

7. A server comprising:

a data storing unit that stores data;

a document data generating unit that generates document data browsable by the client based on the data when the data is requested on the client;

a determining unit that determines whether or not the data requested by the client includes specific information;

an adding unit that adds identification information indicating that the specific information is included and a script for determining whether or not the specific information is browsed by the client to the document data generated by the document data generating unit when the determining unit determines that the data includes the specific information; and

a transmitting unit that transmits the document data to the client.

8. (canceled)