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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2002
David Earl Blaschke, Austin, TX (US);
Scott Thomas Jones, Austin, TX (US);
David Earl Blaschke, Austin, TX (US);
Scott Thomas Jones, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system, method, and program controls a display of pages retrieved over a network by a browser program. A predetermined minimum threshold of time for displaying a page is required before the page can be included in a browser history list that is used to satisfy 'Back' and 'Forward' requests from a user. For each page, if the length of time that the page is displayed is less than the minimum threshold of time, then the page, or a reference to the page, is not stored in memory in the history list. In this way, pages that merely forward or reference another page, i.e., forwarder pages, are not included in the history list. As such, a forwarder page will not be included in the sequence of pages when a “Back” function is utilized by a user.