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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 24, 1997
Margaret Gardner MacPhail, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of monitoring transmissions across a network by recording a history of user-selected network transmission requests to a network client in a trace object, wherein the history of user-selected network transmission requests includes a trace of one or more network links, assigning a unique identifier to the trace object, and saving the trace object. In the embodiment wherein the network is the Internet, the method records a sequence of links to sites on the World Wide Web. A web browser can allow toggling between a logging mode and a non-logging mode, in order to start and stop recording of link traces. Multiple traces from different network sessions can thus be merged into a single link sequence which can thereafter be used to revisit a network link contained in the history of network transmissions. Different link sequences can be combined to form procedures. Supervisors (e.g., parents) can control the creation and maintenance of trace objects and link sequences by requiring a security signature or password to enable toggling between the logging and non-logging modes.