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Method for creating and playing back a smart bookmark that automatically retrieves a requested Web page through a plurality of intermediate Web pages

  • US 6,535,912 B1
  • Filed: 08/31/1999
  • Issued: 03/18/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/31/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of creating a bookmark for accessing over a computer network a last Web page that is reached by successively accessing in sequence a plurality of Web pages starting with a first Web page, each next successive Web page in the sequence being accessed in response to at least one action on a browser at its previous Web page, the method comprising:

  • a) recording at least one action associated with accessing the first Web page from the browser;

    b) loading the first Web page in the browser;

    c) for each next successive Web page until the last Web page is reached, recording the at least one action used to reach that next Web page from its immediate previous Web page and loading that next Web page in the browser, the number of Web pages in the sequence of Web pages from the first to last being allowed to be essentially unconstrained, and other than being linked by the at least one action used to reach each next Web page from its immediate previous Web page, the relationship between each next Web page and its immediate previous Web page being essentially unconstrained; and

    d) storing in a file data associated with the actions recorded in a) and c) so that when the file is read by a player program the first Web page and each next successive Web page until the last Web page are sequentially accessed automatically.

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