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Recording a hyper text transfer protocol (HTTP) session for playback

  • US 9,350,817 B2
  • Filed: 07/22/2009
  • Issued: 05/24/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • maintaining by one or more processors a set of rules that identify one or more types of online activities to be monitored and collected for a first user, the one or more types of online activities specified by the first user as online activities that are to be shared with other people;

    based on the set of rules designating by the first user the one or more types of online activities to be shared with other people, determining by the one or more processors that a subset of a sequence of online activities of the first user are of the one or more types of online activities to be monitored and collected;

    in response to determining that the online activities of the first user are of the one or more types of online activities, monitoring and recording by the one or more processors the subset of the sequence of online activities of the first user, wherein the subset of the sequence of online activities includes only the one or more types of online activities specified by the first user as the online activities that are to be monitored and collected, wherein the online activities comprising online consumption of online content by the first user;

    constructing by the one or more processors a path based on the subset of the sequence of online activities of the first user, the path comprising a sequence of online activity points that each correspond to one of the online activities in the subset of the sequence of online activities of the first user, the path enabling a second user to experience personally for himself or herself at least an approximation of the subset of the sequence of online activities of the first user;

    maintaining by the one or more processors a profile associated with the second user, the profile identifying the first user as a microproducer in which the second user is interested; and

    in response to accessing the profile of the second user that identifies the first user as the microproducer in which the second user is interested, communicating by the one or more processors the path for traversal of a portion of the path by the second user,wherein recording the subset of the sequence of online activities of the first user comprises automatically recording, by a server hosting a particular website and based on the set of rules, the subset of the sequence of online activities of the first user at the particular website,wherein the path based on the subset of the sequence of online activities of the first user is constructed in response to the second user visiting the particular website,wherein the method further comprises;

    at some time after the profile associated with the second user identifies the first user as the microproducer in which the second user is interested, determining that the second user has accessed the particular website associated with the online activities of the first user, andwherein communicating the path for traversal of the portion of the path comprising the sequence of online activity points associated with the particular website to the second user for traversal by the second user.

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