Netscape Communications Corporation

Kristin Bauersfeld

Scott Putterman

A session navigation and recording system for a computer environment automatically records every web page that the user visits, thus preserving the context of the paths and allowing the user to view all of the paths traversed in a session which are placed in a file. The user navigates through the saved session paths using a session history toolbar which allows the user to navigate through any selected session path and provides controls for backward, forward, pause, and record commands. Sessions can be automatically executed by the user with a time delay between each task. The user can edit and display any session path. Pages may be marked for different levels of priorities and also for aging, i.e. marked to expire within a certain time span or by a certain date. The user also creates a custom path comprised of web pages, macros, filters, search queries, email, and any object that can be acted upon, including other application programs and may also be combined with all or part of a session path. The user defined paths are executed in the same manner as session paths.

Browsing session recording playback and editing system for generating user defined paths and allowing users to mark the priority of items in the paths

Browsing session recording playback and editing system for generating user defined paths and allowing users to mark the importance of items in the paths

A page proxy manages representations of page information, such as Web page locations in the form of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), which are presented as Web page bookmarks. A proxy tool is provided by which a URL proxy for a Web page displayed in a browser, such the Netscape Navigator, may be readily manipulated by the use of any well known gestures, such as mouse-over and click and drag and drop (where a cursor is moved over the Web page proxy by use of a mouse, a button on the mouse is clicked to attach the proxy to the cursor, and the mouse is used to drag the proxy to a desired location, where it is then dropped by releasing the button on the mouse). The proxy tool operates in conjunction with a navigation aid that provides an organization view of destination locations and actions in the form of a drop down menu. The proxy tool may be a page proxy icon, which is located on a menu bar proximate to a Web page location field, and the navigation aid may be a drop down menu that includes hierarchically arranged contents, including multiple levels of sub-menus, and that also includes various actions, such as editing functions.

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Kristin Bauersfeld